Disappearance of the Other. Byung-Chul Han and Un-inhabited History

Abstract

The following lines are intended to create a space for reflection based on the scholia, written or not, that occupy the margins of the book Byung-Chul Han's Expulsion of the Different (2017), a wroth cry in front of society. The aspiration is no other than to analyze his criticisms from the impact they have on History (inhabited?) and its need for stories anchored in a new subject.

Han places us in the presence of an apocalyptic horizon that requires new ideas and new languages, meeting places for History and Philosophy. Society is the habitat for the unfolding of historical events and refers to the identity construction of the subject from the others. Han dissects today's society, confronting us with what it already is, but glimpsing what is to come. History emerges as a narrative gaze that needs distance, increasingly blurred by technology and its many faces. Han announces the disappearance of the other and the loneliness of the same.