Byung-Chul Han's Burnout Society

Byung-Chul Hanova Vyhořelá společnost Byung-Chul Han's Burnout Society

Adam Šimčík

E-LOGOS, 2023, vol. 2023, issue 1, 4-13

Abstract: This article deals with a critical summary of the main ideas and reflections expressed in the book The Burnedout Society. The author of the five essays that make up this book is Byung-Chul Han, a German-writing philosopher from Seoul, Korea. The ideas of this author are elaborated in detail in the essay Society of Fatigue, which was logically included in the first place in the book. The central idea of this treatise, and indeed of the author's entire set of reflections, is the current decrease in negativity that surrounds contemporary man and that leads to an excess of positivity and the emergence of a society of performance. According to Han, it results in the fact that contemporary man becomes his own exploiter. This central theme is further elaborated in the following four essays. The author of this article has a critical attitude to some of Han's propositions and at the same time finds parallels to Han's main ideas introduced in the work To have or to be? by Erich Fromm. Above all, the author questions Han's construct of paradoxical freedom and also contradicts Han's heralded end of the viral epoch.

Keywords: Byung-Chul Han; Burnout Society; Vyhořelá společnost (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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