The Disappearance of Rituals
A Topology of the Present
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Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologie...
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Forlagsbeskrivelse af The Disappearance of Rituals af Byung-Chul Han
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of the past, Han provides a genealogy of their disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication – where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning – to today’s communication without community, which does away with collective feelings and leaves individuals exposed to exploitation and manipulation by neoliberal psycho-politics. The community that is invoked everywhere today is an atrophied and commoditized community that lacks the symbolic power to bind people together. For Han, it is only the mutual praxis of recognition borne by the ritualistic sharing of the symbolic between members of a community which creates the footholds of objectivity allowing us to make sense of time. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
Detaljer
Forlag
Polity Press
ISBN
9781509542765
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
186
Udgivelsesdato
04-09-2020
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
3351501
EAN nr.
9781509542765
Varegruppe
Engelsk non fiction div.
Højde/Dybde (mm)
209
Bredde (mm)
139
Længde (mm)
11
Vægt (g)
150
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