[PDF] The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han, Daniel Steuer
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present by Byung-Chul Han, Daniel Steuer
- The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
- Byung-Chul Han, Daniel Steuer
- Page: 186
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- ISBN: 9781509542765
- Publisher: Wiley
The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
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Overview
Untrammelled neoliberalism and the inexorable force of production have produced a 21st century crisis of community: a narcissistic cult of authenticity and mass turning-inward are among the pathologies engendered by it. We are individuals afloat in an atomised society, where the loss of the symbolic structures inherent in ritual behaviour has led to overdependence on the contingent to steer identity. Avoiding saccharine nostalgia for the rituals of the past, Han provides a genealogy of their disappearance as a means of diagnosing the pathologies of the present. He juxtaposes a community without communication – where the intensity of togetherness in silent recognition provides structure and meaning – to today’s communication without community, which does away with collective feelings and leaves individuals exposed to exploitation and manipulation by neoliberal psycho-politics. The community that is invoked everywhere today is an atrophied and commoditized community that lacks the symbolic power to bind people together. For Han, it is only the mutual praxis of recognition borne by the ritualistic sharing of the symbolic between members of a community which creates the footholds of objectivity allowing us to make sense of time. This new book by one of the most creative cultural theorists writing today will be of interest to a wide readership.
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