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What does /lit/ think of Byung Chul Han?

>> No.17005950

What do you think of him?

>> No.17005994

>>17005936
Cosmopolitan bourgeois gook who wouldn't be doing what he does if it didn't make him enough money to live in a fully renovated altbaus with top of the range LG appliances and marble countertops in central Berlin, Saint Laurent suits and 80 dollar shampoo. Zizek gets stick for being a slob but at least he'd be the exact same without all the attention.

>> No.17006137

>>17005994
source or gtfo

>> No.17006145

>>17005936
i masturbated while reading burnout society

>> No.17006587

>>17005994
not an argument

>> No.17006595

>>17006587
You didn't ask for arguments; you asked for opinions.

>> No.17006625
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>Following the digital revolution, we need to reformulate Schmitt's words on sovereignty yet again: Sovereign is he who commands the shitstorms of the Net.
>Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit describes a via dolorosa. In contrast, the phenomenology of the digital knows nothing of the dialectical pain of thinking. It might be called the Phenomenology of "Like."

>> No.17006705

>>17005936
Continental wishy washy garbage from what I've seen. Doesn't really give arguments, just makes quasi empirical claims without data

>> No.17006963

>>17005994
Someone sounds jealous

>> No.17007290

>>17005936
What he says about self exploitation is correct, he overstates the frequency of burnout though. Like a lot of successful academic crossover dudes, he mainly explains something we already knew elegantly.

In German language public intellectual terms, shits on Precht, doesn't reach Sloterdijk.

>> No.17007413

>>17005936
His take on Zen Buddhism is one of the most interesting I have read. I want to say, the most "zen", since the other books on Zen that I've read are either highly metaphysical or highly practical, but none have portrayed the character of Zen as well as he has.

>> No.17007732

>>17007290
This is pretty accurate in my opinion.
I've read 2 books of his and while they where somewhat interesting I couldn't find any new ideas that where described accurately and eye-opening. In some way I was reminded of reading Mark Fischer. It all makes kind of sense but the scope of the explanations are just too narrow and short to be really solid.
When you compare it to someone like Sloterdijk as the other anon mentioned who always goes back a few thousand years to start the argument at the very beginning, Byungs observations seem to fall a little bit short to really evolve into something big.
It makes the books into an easy and pleasant read though. I want him to write something more substantial to judge it better. (but then again I didn't read all of his stuff so maybe I'm missing something)

>>17007413
What work is that?

>> No.17007814

>>17007732
Philosophie des Zen-Buddhismus
I don't think it's been translated into English

>> No.17007932

'Blasiert' 'Vage' 'Gestelzt'
and also he's a nigger

>> No.17008560

>>17005936
/lit/ isn't a person