The Disappearance of Rituals
Byung-Chul Han
This compact and intense treatise argues that we are living through a crisis of community and attendant loss of ritual power.
This compact and intense treatise argues that we are living through a crisis of community and attendant loss of ritual power.
The modern day worker, argues Byung-Chul Han, is an “entrepreneur of themselves.”
“We are becoming blind to small, inconspicuous things, to what is common, the incidental and the customary—the things that do not attract us but ground us in being.”
A person dies, but capital is forever.