Byung-Chul Han: The Agony of Eros 

Very similar line of thought to Christos Yannaras in his gem of a book, Variations on the Song of Songs. I think to his opening line, “we come to know love only in the context of failure. “ as Han points out, we live in a culture that prevents us from turning failure into a deeper eros.

I think this is one of the most important philosophical treaties of our day. Awesome analysis!

I feel like I owe you a beer or tea or something for introducing me to Byung-Chul Han Can't believe I haven't heard of him until now

Fantastic video, Treydon.

Incredible video Trey, I sincerely appreciated it.

Wonderful. Thanks for creating and sharing this!

Bloody fantastic video, mate. Best one yet, I'd reckon.

I just want to say: thank you, thank you so much. I adore your knowledge. By these kind of videos, I feel like I can reconnect to myself, what do I want to read? Why I want to? What I want to search for and to think of ? What to put my time and effort in? As you have said Han is an underrated philosopher in our time and there are not so much content made about him, I'm glad there are you who's making these beautiful crafted video. It's really rare. Sorry my English is bad and I can't read Han if my English is like this, so to be able to read him and other great books and authors, also to enjoy your videos more is a motivation for me to learning language, especially English as well.

Now that was a beautiful video. Thank you so much

Another great one! Thank you for delivering such cohesive pieces on Han's interesting and timely philosophy!

Nice one mate. I love reading Han, its like being awake somehow. Lacan and its modern commentators also can give a lot of insights on these matters. The "new synthomes" of our times. Cheers from Brazil!

I'm grateful i found your channel. Be blessed on your journey.

Great video. Never heard of Han before now but I will certainly be checking him out. Commodification = destruction of otherness. Commodification is the making banal, safe and indistinct. Couldn't agree more!

Thank you very much for this Trey.

This is my second comment on this video alone because every few months I come back and watch this video, it’s so good.

this is awesome content, thankyou

very cool i am glad i found this channel thanks for making these videos

In the words of Franz Kafka: "The reservations with which you take evil into yourself are not yours, but those of Evil." "The animal twists the whip from its master's grip and whips itself to become its own master--not knowing that this is only a fantasy, produced by a knew knot in the master's whiplash"

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Great stuff .... thanks .... all the best

I love this channel… there’s some real insight here unlike most of the kitsch on RU-vid

Great video, thank you! This made me think of the theological difference between divine names and divine attributes. That distinction illustrates just this divide-between the Other and the Same-by similarly driving a wedge between classical theistic notions of the divine and the sacred’s relation to this ever-surpassing essence, and modernist profanations which reduce metaphysics to ontic taxonomy-which is by its very nature univocal rather than analogical. Modernity therefore begins conceiving of the divine in terms that precisely preclude any ultimate Otherness. When we offer names of the divine we attempt to address ourselves and our rational faculties to the transcendent Other by oblique means which are themselves predicated upon the notion that this Other is so radically Other that it exceeds every attempt to name it, and most definitely exceeds any univocal metaphysics cum onticity, and therefore any real predication of attributes in a univocal mode; that is, in any mode that is comprehensible or exhaustible by our limited rational faculties and methodologies. When we attempt to enumerate divine “attributes”, we implicitly say that Being is itself a being among many, thus logical incoherence and narcissism abound. Love is impossible in heterotopy and a world comprised of mere univocity as all becomes One without essential difference.

concise and brilliant. fitting for the philosopher of our time

Awesome…very helpful 😊

Great stuff

I must say its not easy to catch all of these concepts at once,but I would be teribbly sorry if I never even heard them so that I can explore them.For that I thank you.

Fascinating stuff. I should check this Han fella out

It feels right. Covers a few unspeakable lamentations!

12:30 the return to self is the gift of the other. Kierkegaard's repetition

“At different degrees, everything is pathology except indifference.” -Emil Cioran

Banger

Can someone explain a little further what is meant by "The Other" and how a narcissist cannot distinguish themselves from it? Isn't the point of narcissism that it's always a dichotomy between the Me and the Other people? Where the Me is always placed above?

min. 11:40; Nietzsche was not a proponent of "bare life", he despised the mundane and advocated for the subject to turn the act of self-surpassing into its task, source of meaning and instigator of personal freedom.

it resonates a lot with Alain Badiou's "Éloge de l'amour".

I didnt expect to be so disturbed by this video

15:17 it looks like he's chewing a star. 😂

Nice

Great video, Slava Bogu!!!

can someone give me a more detailed explanation on the Other and otherness. especially how its used in this book?

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Is there a progression here?

These people, 9:29 never cease to amaze me, acting as if people's nudity and words online is more offensive than the violence we're exposed to in REAL life, even brought manners into it, all the while the physical abuse, i'm not even allowed to speak of it because the youtube ceo will hurt me if i do, Han's notions of what causes depression are of those groomed by the occult

I may be completely wrong to ask....but due to Han's criticism of capitalism, I am curious about his view of communism.

Am I right in saying the gospels are completely withiut eros?

you play hockey?

Dont worry about it and take your Sabbatical. Less is more. (Y)

hi tree

Whenever we are not our nature ~wecause~ What nature becomes ourcause ~because~ Wecause our nature to be ~wecause~ What we become in nature ~because~ Being is thecause ~wecause~ Ourcause to be Wecause what we become ~because~ Being is what is not ~because~ Not being is ~thecause~ Of what being became that forgot ~tocause~ Thecause of what is being ~thecause~ Of what thecause should be ~because~ Knowing what is not is knowing what can be ~thecause~ Of being Wecause ourcause because thecause should be thecause wecause ~because~ Being thecause wecause becomes ourcause because Good action causes it The Good you see and cause ~tocause~ The Good I see tocause ~willcause~ The Good I see wecause is Good ~because~ I see the Good in you

Is not consumption the atonement of Capitalism? do we not finally feel like we're "enabled" to forget about our debt in the moment we buy the thing? If there was no atonement whatsoever to capitalism I don't think it could function.

It hurts when you see how much they have taken. We have traded God for nothing.

Is this philosophy or psychology?

Sobering critique of modern day delusion. What do?

RM of BTS brought me here.

Nice resumé but you explain nothing. Why?

another episode of: whatever fits my doctrine... you have problems with porn because of your religion. the philosophy fitting that shit does not matter to make sense to you