There is no better clock than the sun, no better calendar than the stars in the night sky. Until quite recently in human history, it was the natural structure of the day, as opposed to quantitative ...

Byung-Chul Han’s The Palliative Society tries to contextualize the emotional and cultural ramifications of Covid-19 without ever addressing its material consequences. Pisa, Italy, 2020. (Photo by ...

We live, we often hear, in a world full of information, deracinated data stamping out all the humanity from our lives. The Catholic Korean-born German philosopher Byung-chul Han, recently hailed as an ...

In The Agony of Eros (2017), Byung-Chul Han suggests, “Thinking demands calm. Thinking is an expedition into quietness”. Han, a Korean-born philosopher based in Germany, has emerged as one of Europe’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADRID (AP) — Philosopher Byung-Chul Han was awarded Spain's 2025 Princess of Asturias Prize for Humanities for his writings on ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has brought death to the forefront of daily life. Whether in the overwhelming moments of intimate grief or the omnipresent background hum of irrepressible dread, the virus’s ...