7 Best theory books like The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

Cover of The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.05

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris…

If you liked the theory plot in The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han , here is a list of 7 books like this:

Cover of The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett

1. The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

By: Richard Sennett

3.94

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In The Corrosion of Character, Richard Sennett, "among the country's most distinguished thinkers . … read more

Similar categories in Richard Sennett's The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • cultural
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • society
  • sociology
"İyi bir işin nitelikleriyle iyi bir karakterin nitelikleri artık örtüşmüyordu."

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

"Yeni kapitalizmin zaman boyutu, insanın karakteri ile bu karakterin süregiden bir anlatıya dönüşmesini engelleyen çılgın zaman deneyimi arasında bir çatışma yarattı."

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

"... sürekli riske maruz kalmak, karakter duygunuzu iyice aşındırır. Ortalamaya doğru regresyon eğilimini yenebilecek hiçbir anlatı yoktur; insan her defasında 'baştan başlar'."

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

"Rutin, belirli bir noktada zararlı hale gelmeye başlar. Çünkü insanoğlu kendi çabası üzerindeki kontrolünü yitirir; çalışma zamanı üzerindeki kontrolün yitmesi ise insanın zihnen öldüğü anlamına geli…"

-Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character: The Personal Consequences of Work in the New Capitalism

Cover of The Society of the Spectacle by Donald Nicholson-Smith, Guy Debord

2. The Society of the Spectacle

By: Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Few works of political and cultural theory have been as enduringly provocative as Guy Debord's The … read more

Similar categories in Donald Nicholson-Smith's The Society of the Spectacle book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • society
  • sociology
"Like lost children we live our unfinished adventures."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"La réalité du temps a été remplacée par la publicité du temps."

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

"Spectacle is the sun that never sets over the empire of modern passivity"

-Donald Nicholson-Smith, The Society of the Spectacle

Cover of The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, Margaret Canovan

3. The Human Condition

By: Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

A work of striking originality bursting with unexpected insights, The Human Conditionis a in many r… read more

Similar categories in Hannah Arendt's The Human Condition book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt Bauman

4. Liquid Modernity

By: Zygmunt Bauman

3.45

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a 'heavy' and 'solid', hardware-focus… read more

Similar categories in Zygmunt Bauman's Liquid Modernity book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
Cover of La era del vacío by Gilles Lipovetsky, Joan Vinyoli, Michele Pendanx, Joan Vinyoli Sastre

5. La era del vacío

By: Gilles Lipovetsky , Joan Vinyoli , Michele Pendanx , Joan Vinyoli Sastre

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

Se ha afirmado que estamos en la era posmoderna. Estallido de lo social, disolucion de lo politico:… read more

Similar categories in Gilles Lipovetsky's La era del vacío book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
Cover of Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson

6. Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

By: Robert A. Johnson

4.29

Format: 221 pages, Paperback

A noted author and Jungian analyst teaches how to use dreams and inner exercises to achieve persona… read more

Similar categories in Robert A. Johnson's Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"You must understand that when you approach the unconscious you are dealing with one the most powerful and autonomous forces in human experience."

-Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

"People were startled to hear that if we don’t go to the spirit, the spirit comes to us as neurosis. This is the immediate, practical connection between psychology and religion in our time."

-Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth

7. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?

By: Mark Fisher

4.00

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

read more

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

8. Tell Me the Truth about Love

By: None

4.31

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Had he been writing now, Auden might well have penned a poem entitled "Tell me the Truth About Publ… read more

Similar categories in None's Tell Me the Truth about Love book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

Cover of The World as Will and Representation, Volume I by Arthur Schopenhauer, None

9. The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

By: Arthur Schopenhauer , None

4.21

Format: 534 pages, Paperback

Arthur Schopenhauer's Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung is one of the most important philosophical… read more

Similar categories in Arthur Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation, Volume I book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • theory
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
"Scoundrels are always sociable."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"To have lost what cannot be missed is clearly no evil."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"Everything is beautiful only so long as it does not concern us."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

"That which knows all things and is known by none is the subject."

-Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Representation, Volume I

10. Twilight of the Idols

By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Tracy B. Strong , Richard Polt

3.45

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche's own unabashed appraisal of the last work intended to serve as a … read more

Similar categories in Friedrich Nietzsche's Twilight of the Idols book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

Cover of Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures by Mark Fisher

11. Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

By: Mark Fisher

4.29

Format: 211 pages, None

Edited with an introduction by Matt Colquhoun, this idiosyncratic collection of lecture notes and t… read more

Similar categories in Mark Fisher's Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • sociology
Cover of Ma chi me lo fa fare? Come il lavoro ci ha illuso: la fine dell'incantesimo by Maura Gancitano

12. Ma chi me lo fa fare? Come il lavoro ci ha illuso: la fine dell'incantesimo

By: Maura Gancitano

4.13

Format: 181 pages, Kindle Edition

È PROPRIO VERO CHE SE AMIAMO IL NOSTRO LAVORO NON LAVOREREMO MAI UN GIORNO NELLA NOSTRA VITA O SIAM… read more

Similar categories in Maura Gancitano's Ma chi me lo fa fare? Come il lavoro ci ha illuso: la fine dell'incantesimo book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Teoría de la gravedad by Leila Guerriero

13. Teoría de la gravedad

By: Leila Guerriero

4.38

Format: 212 pages, Paperback

En esta sección de columnas, publicadas a lo largo de más de cinco años en la contraportada de El P… read more

Similar categories in Leila Guerriero's Teoría de la gravedad book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • nonfiction
  • essays
"Sólo cuando sé que mi hija está condenada por mi, que la traje al mundo para morir y acepto eso, es cuando puedo ser su padre de manera cabal, liberándola y liberándome"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"El olor del jabón y de las flores. La casa navegando como un barco hacia el verano. Y yo, en medio de todo, feliz de una manera perfecta y peligrosa. Con la única clase de felicidad que iba a salvarm…"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"Cuando nacés tenés esencia. Después, eempieza a aparecer la personalidad. La personalidad trabaja en contra de la esencia. En nuestra cultura capitalista de demanda constante, rinde la personalidad. …"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

"Tuve un despertar súbito bajo la forma de pregunta ardiente: "¿Qué estoy haciendo acá?". Entonces él —ya saben, ni siquiera es amor— me preguntó sonriendo: "¿Te gusta?". No estábamos ahí construyendo…"

-Leila Guerriero, Teoría de la gravedad

Cover of The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

14. The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

By: Byung-Chul Han

4.05

Format: 186 pages, Hardcover

Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century cris… read more

Similar categories in Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • cultural
  • history
  • theory
  • politics
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
  • society
  • sociology
Cover of Unverfügbarkeit by Hartmut Rosa

15. Unverfügbarkeit

By: Hartmut Rosa

4.28

Format: 136 pages, Paperback

Ein fundiertes Plädoyer für eine Gesellschaft, die der Verfügbarkeit der Welt Grenzen setzt. Das ze… read more

Similar categories in Hartmut Rosa's Unverfügbarkeit book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • sociology
"En réalité, j’ai l’impression que la structure fondamentale du désir se situe justement ici : il est propulsé par l’exigence de mettre à portée quelque chose qui ne l’est pas (encore). Et là se trouv…"

-Hartmut Rosa, Unverfügbarkeit

Cover of Neurociencia del cuerpo by Nazareth Castellanos

16. Neurociencia del cuerpo

By: Nazareth Castellanos

4.32

Format: 235 pages, Kindle Edition

La neurociencia vive hoy inmersa en una revolución con fuertes implicaciones clínicas, sociales y p… read more

Similar categories in Nazareth Castellanos's Neurociencia del cuerpo book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
Cover of Artificial: La nueva inteligencia y el contorno de lo humano by Mariano Sigman

17. Artificial: La nueva inteligencia y el contorno de lo humano

By: Mariano Sigman

4.29

Format: 247 pages, Kindle Edition

Ideas, herramientas y preguntas para aproximarse a la inteligencia artificial sin miedo, de la mano… read more

Similar categories in Mariano Sigman's Artificial: La nueva inteligencia y el contorno de lo humano book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • nonfiction
Cover of La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal by Juan José Millás

18. La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal

By: Juan José Millás

4.04

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

Tras la extraordinaria acogida de La vida contada por un sapiens a un neandertal, el tándem más bri… read more

Similar categories in Juan José Millás's La muerte contada por un sapiens a un neandertal book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future? by Slavoj Žižek

19. Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future?

By: Slavoj Žižek

3.93

Format: 169 pages, Hardcover

The most provocative philosopher of our times returns with a rousing and counterintuitive analysis … read more

Similar categories in Slavoj Žižek's Too Late to Awaken What Lies Ahead When There Is No Future? book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • theory
  • politics
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • essays
Cover of On Giving Up by Adam Phillips

20. On Giving Up

By: Adam Phillips

3.81

Format: 146 pages, Hardcover

From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on what we must give up to feel more alive… read more

Similar categories in Adam Phillips's On Giving Up book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • essays
Cover of Mandala Symbolism by C.G. Jung

21. Mandala Symbolism

By: C.G. Jung

4.21

Format: 131 pages, Paperback

Contents: Mandalas. I. A Study in the Process of Individuation. II. Concerning Mandala Symbolis… read more

Similar categories in C.G. Jung's Mandala Symbolism book and Byung-Chul Han's The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology

6 best-selling history books like The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han

Transform Your Habits

The Society of the Spectacle

Donald Nicholson-Smith , Guy Debord

4.02

Transform Your Habits

The Human Condition

Hannah Arendt , Margaret Canovan

3.31

Transform Your Habits

Liquid Modernity

Zygmunt Bauman

3.45

Transform Your Habits

Postcapitalist Desire: The Final Lectures

Mark Fisher

4.29

View all the books

14 Best philosophy books like Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth by Robert A. Johnson

Transform Your Habits

Dancing in the Flames: The Dark Goddess in the Transformation of Consciousness

Marion Woodman , Elinor Dickson

4.21

Transform Your Habits

The Red Book: Liber Novus

C.G. Jung , Sonu Shamdasani , Mark Kyburz , John Peck

4.50

Transform Your Habits

The Undiscovered Self

C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull

4.14

Transform Your Habits

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

C.G. Jung , R.F.C. Hull , Herbert Read , Michael Fordham

4.30

View all the books

Never miss a story from us, get weekly updates in your inbox.