Episode #232 ... Byung Chul Han - The Crisis of Narration

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  Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen West. This is Philosophize This.

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  So Byung-Chul Han is a bit of a fan favorite on this podcast.

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  Lots of emails sent almost two years ago when we did a couple episodes on his work.

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  And since then, he's released a couple more books.

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  The one today is called The Crisis of Narration.

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  And as your philosophical Sherpa, here's my take on how to best approach this book.

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  To me, it seems there's two big pieces of his argument.

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  One is a description of something big that's changed about the world we live in.

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  And the other is the existential cost that people have to pay living in this new world,

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  the people there being us.

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  That's how I'm going to structure this episode today.

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  I'll kind of swap between first describing the world he depicts,

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  and then I'll explain the cost of it.

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  Just know that throughout all of this,

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  Byung-Chul Han is setting his sights on what he sees as an absolutely sickening decline of storytelling,

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  a decline that has changed what it is to be a person in today's world,

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  hence the name of the book, The Crisis of Narration.

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