{"product_id":"the-crisis-of-narration-paperback-softback-9781509560431","title":"The Crisis of Narration (Paperback \/ softback) 9781509560431","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Crisis of Narration\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eByung-Chul Han (Author), Daniel Steuer (Translated by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509560431, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 2 February 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e100 pages\u003cbr\u003e20.8 x 14 x 1 cm, 0.136 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“an entertaining polemic … animated by a Cassandra sensibility that expects warnings to go unheeded.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStuart Jeffries, \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Powerful.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eMatthew Gasda, \u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“[Han] is a serious and committed writer, relentless in his disdain for the way social media platforms and algorithms have disrupted our personal, political, and spiritual lives.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eArtAsiaPacific\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A valuable confrontation with the question of what ‘narrative’ actually is … thoughtful and generative.”\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Conversation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Like a Sartre for the age of screens, Han puts words to our prevailing condition of not-quite-hopeless digital despair.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A nicely packaged, interesting and thought-provoking meditation.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eComplete Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Byung-Chul Han stands in the tradition of Jacques Ellul and Christopher Lasch … Reading any one of their books will result in never seeing things the same again.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRussell Moore, \u003ci\u003eChristianity Today\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Han’s enquiries into the different regions of contemporary experience, including work, time, love and art, yield a remarkably consistent project of thought, a relentless critique of the spiritual and political privations of digital capitalism.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoshua Cohen, \u003ci\u003eAeon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community – the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Through storytelling, capitalism appropriates narrative: stories sell. They are no longer a medium of shared experience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe inflation of storytelling betrays a need to cope with contingency, but storytelling is unable to transform the information society back into a stable narrative community. Rather, storytelling as storyselling is a pathological phenomenon of our age. Byung-Chul Han, one of the most perceptive cultural theorists of contemporary society, dissects this crisis with exceptional insight and flair.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePreface\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Narration to Information\u003cbr\u003eThe Poverty of Experience\u003cbr\u003eThe Narrated Life\u003cbr\u003eBare Life\u003cbr\u003eThe Disenchantment of the World\u003cbr\u003eFrom Shocks to Likes\u003cbr\u003eTheory as Narrative\u003cbr\u003eNarration as Healing\u003cbr\u003eNarrative Community\u003cbr\u003eStoryselling\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Philosophy [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20%5BHP%5D%22\"\u003eHP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52453384847640,"sku":"9781509560431","price":12.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509560431.jpg?v=1785283658","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-crisis-of-narration-paperback-softback-9781509560431","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}