Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han is a South Korean-born Swiss-German philosopher and cultural theorist. He was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts and still occasionally gives courses there.

Quotes

The Agony of Eros

• Depression is a narcissistic malady.

• Eros and depression are opposites.

• Eros, erotic desire, conquers depression. It delivers us from the inferno of the same to the utopia, indeed utopia, of the wholly other.

• Catastrophic fatality abruptly switches over into salvation.

• Philosophy is the translation of eros into logos.

• Eros called philosophos, the "friend of wisdom" in Plato. The philosopher is a friend, a lover.