Psychopolitics

Following his bestseller Müdigkeitsgesellschaft, Berlin philosopher Byung-Chul Han continues his passionate criticism of neoliberalism. He shrewdly dissects the neoliberal regime’s techniques of governance and power – techniques which, unlike Foucault’s biopolitics, harness the human psyche as a productive force. Han’s description of psychopolitics’ many facets shows us a neoliberalism that leads to a crisis of freedom.
In the course of this analysis of neoliberal techniques of power, Han also presents a new theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this brilliant new essay also develops countermodels to neoliberalism’s psychopolitics: rich in ideas and full of surprises.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 24.07.2014
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-002203-5
  • 128 Pages
  • Author: Byung-Chul Han
Psychopolitics
Byung-Chul Han Psychopolitics
S. Fischer Verlag GmbH
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Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han, born in 1959, studied metallurgy in Korea, then philosophy, German, and Catholic theology in Freiburg and Munich. After a philosophy professorship in Basel, he became professor of philosophy and media theory at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Karlsruhe in 2010. Since 2012, he has been a professor of cultural sciences at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. His books with S. Fischer include Psychopolitik: Neoliberalismus und die neuen Machttechniken (2014) and Die Errettung des Schönen (2015).