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Capitalism and the Death Drive
Byung-Chul Han
Translated by Daniel Steuer
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Originally published in German as Kapitalismus und Todestrieb © MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2019. All rights reserved.
This English edition © Polity Press, 2021
Excerpt from ‘Tur mir Leid, aber das sind die Tatsachen’ by Niels Boeing and Andreas Lebert in Die Zeit 5 (August 2014) © Die Zeit. Reprinted with permission of Die Zeit.
Interview ‘Byung-Chul Han: COVID-19 has reduced us to a “society of survival”’ by Carmen Sigüenza and Esther Rebollo, published on EURACTIV in May 2020 © EFE with EURACTIV. com. Reprinted with permission of EURACTIV.
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ISBN-13: 978-1-5095-4502-5
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Names: Han, Byung-Chul, author. | Steuer, Daniel, translator.
Title: Capitalism and the death drive / Byung-Chul Han ; translated by Daniel Steuer.
Other titles: Kapitalismus und Todestrie. English
Description: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, [2021] | “Originally published in German as Kapitalismus und Todestrieb © MSB Matthes & Seitz Berlin Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin 2019”--Title page verso. | Includes bibliographical references. | Summary: “A leading cultural theorist examines the inherent destructiveness of capitalism”--Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020053305 (print) | LCCN 2020053306 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509545018 (hardback) | ISBN 9781509545001 (paperback) | ISBN 9781509545025 (epub) | ISBN 9781509547661 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Capitalism--Moral and ethical aspects. | Capitalism--Social
