Podcast #1,066: Auto-Exploitation, Constructive Violence, and the Palliative Society: A Fashionable Thinker’s Concepts for Making Sense of the Current Age

Emotions of burnout and tedium have grow to be prevalent in trendy life. To grasp the roots of and options to those points, we are able to flip to each historical philosophers and modern thinkers. Among the many latter is Korean-German thinker Byung-Chul Han, whose thought-provoking analyses are gaining growing recognition.

If you happen to’re not but acquainted with Han’s philosophy, Steven Knepper, a professor on the Virginia Navy Institute and the co-author of a brand new vital introduction to this contemporary thinker’s work, will take us on a tour of a few of Han’s key concepts. Within the first a part of our dialog, Steven unpacks Han’s idea of the “burnout society” and why so many people really feel drained from collaborating in what he calls “auto-exploitation” and “optimistic violence.” We then talk about how our burnout society can also be a “palliative society” that tries to keep away from struggling in any respect prices and the way our obsession with well being has turned us into a contemporary model of Nietzsche’s “final man.” We finish our dialogue with a few of Han’s concepts for resisting the pitfalls of modernity, together with embracing ritual, contemplation, and an openness to the thriller of others.

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