The Spirit of Hope

Han, Byung-Chul, Steuer, Daniel

  • 出版商: Polity
  • 出版日期: 2024-12-04
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 111
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  • ISBN: 1509565191
  • ISBN-13: 9781509565191
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商品描述

A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak future. Preoccupied with crisis management, life becomes a matter of survival.

But it is precisely at such moments of fear and despair that hope arises like a phoenix from the ashes. Only hope can give us back a life that is more than mere survival. Fear isolates people and closes them off from one another; hope, by contrast, unites people and forms communities. It opens up a meaningful horizon that re-invigorates and inspires life. It nurtures fantasy and enables us to think about what is yet to come. It makes action possible because it infuses our world with purpose and meaning. Hope is the spring that liberates us from our collective despair and gives us a future.

In this short essay on hope, Byung-Chul Han gives us the perfect antidote to the climate of fear that pervades our world.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

一個幽靈正在困擾著我們:恐懼。我們不斷面對末日場景:疫情、世界大戰、氣候災難。世界末日和人類文明終結的畫面以越來越迫切的方式浮現出來。我們焦慮地面對一個黯淡的未來。專注於危機管理,生活變成了生存的問題。

但正是在這樣的恐懼和絕望時刻,希望如同鳳凰從灰燼中重生。只有希望能夠讓我們重獲超越單純生存的生活。恐懼使人孤立,讓人彼此隔絕;而希望則相反,團結人們,形成社群。它開啟了一個有意義的視野,重新激發和啟發生活。它滋養幻想,使我們能夠思考未來的可能性。它使行動成為可能,因為它為我們的世界注入了目的和意義。希望是解放我們脫離集體絕望的泉源,並賦予我們未來。

在這篇關於希望的短文中,韓炳哲為我們提供了對抗充斥我們世界的恐懼氛圍的完美解藥。

作者簡介

Byung-Chul Han is the author of more than 20 books including The Burnout Society, Saving Beauty and The Scent of Time.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Byung-Chul Han 是超過 20 本書的作者,包括《倦怠社會》、《拯救美麗》和《時間的香氣》。