Books published by Polity

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.

Non-things

Byung-Chul Han

“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.”

Reclaiming Work

André Gorz

“We must dare to prepare ourselves for the Exodus from ‘work-based society’: it no longer exists and will not return.”