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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1959
- Works
- 54
via Open Library + Wikidata
Key facts
- Born
- 1959 (age 66 – 67), Seoul , South Korea
- Alma mater
- University of Freiburg , University of Basel
- Era
- 20th- / 21st-century philosophy
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Continental philosophy , post-structuralism , deconstruction
- Main interests
- Burnout Depression Internet Love Political theory Power Religion Social media Transparency Violence
- Notable ideas
- Shanzhai as " deconstruction in Chinese" "infarcts" "achievement-subjects" positive and negative violence agony of the Eros
- Hangul
- 한병철
- Hanja
- 韓炳哲
- Rr
- Han Byeongcheol
- Mr
- Han Pyŏngch'ŏl
- Ipa
- /han pjʌŋt͡ɕʰʌl/
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Place of birth
- Seoul
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- University of Freiburg
- Languages spoken
- German
- Religion
- Catholic
- Image
- 2015 Byung-Chul Han (cropped)2.jpg
- Work location
- Berlin
- Residence
- Germany
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1959-00-00
- floruit
- 2016-01-01
- influenced by
- Zhuang Zhou
- writing language
- German
- Commons category
- Byung-Chul Han
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
4 objects attributed to Byung-Chul Han, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Byung-Chul Han (Korean: 한병철; born 1959) is a South Korean-born German philosopher, Catholic theologian and cultural theorist. He was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and still occasionally gives courses there. His work largely centers around critiques of neoliberalism and its impact on society and the individual. Although he writes in German, his books have been best received in the Hispanosphere.
Biography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Byung-Chul Han” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.