“Byung-Chul Han's new book challenges the reader to go far beyond the worn-out critique of neoliberalism. On the one side, there is the progressive replacement of substance through communication, painted as a road to existential perdition; it contrasts, on the other side, with the utopian view of a return towards the security of rituals in their form and appearance. This reversal of long-established thought is expressed in a compressed and energetic language that reads like a manifesto.”Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University“The kind of book … that leads one to rethink our standard narratives of history and to see our society and era in a fresh light.” Steven Mintz, Inside Higher Ed“an essential philosopher for anyone wanting to diagnose what plagues the modern person”The Gospel Coalition
