Byung-Chul Han
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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[edit]
The Agony of Eros[edit]
- 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.