The book "Sartre for the Age of Screens" has been published in Belarusian
The "Logvinau" publishing house has released the Belarusian translation of the book by world-renowned Korean-German philosopher Byung-Chul Han, "The Spirit of Hope: Against the Society of Fear." This is the first translation of the book into Belarusian; at the moment, it has not yet been published in Russian.
In the world, Han is called "Sartre for the Age of Screens" (The New Yorker), "pop star of social criticism" (Die Zeit), and "the most read German philosopher of our time" (El Pais). His books focus on criticizing neoliberalism and the transformations occurring in human life due to new information technologies.
In "The Spirit of Hope," the philosopher continues his critical analysis of modernity: he shows how the dominance of apocalyptic scenarios narrows the horizon of the future, and how thinking, subjected to the logic of efficiency and calculation, loses the ability to imagine something fundamentally new.
Han finds the answer in hope – not in optimism, which promises a favorable outcome, but in the ability to open oneself to the unknown and see possibilities where fear paints a dead end. Moreover, he does not simply offer his own definition of hope but enters into a dialogue with classics, critically reinterpreting the ideas of Camus, Arendt, Bloch, and other thinkers.
Does hope truly lead to passivity? Or, on the contrary, without it, neither free thought, nor action, nor a new beginning is possible? For Han, hope is not an escape from reality, but a condition for overcoming its existing boundaries and creating a shared future.
The afterword to the Belarusian edition, titled "We as Subjects of Hope: From West to East," was written by philosopher Tatsiana Shchytsova. She reveals the context of Han's philosophy and compares it with the Belarusian experience. Thus, the book becomes an occasion to reflect not only on the personal ability to hope but also on what allows us to preserve ourselves as a community.
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