<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[author results for Steuer, Daniel]]></title><description><![CDATA[author results for Steuer, Daniel]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/surrey/rss/search?query=Steuer%2C%20Daniel&amp;searchType=author&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 03:58:10 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[The Crisis of Narration]]></title><description><![CDATA[Narratives produce the ties that bind us. They create community, eliminate contingency and anchor us in being. And yet in our contemporary information society, where everything has become arbitrary and random, storytelling becomes storyselling and narratives lose their binding force. Whereas narratives create community, storytelling brings forth only a fleeting community - the community of consumers. No amount of storytelling could recreate the fire around which humans gather to tell each other stories. That fire has long since burnt out. It has been replaced by the digital screen, which separates people rather than bringing them together. Byung-Chul Han, one of the most perceptive cultural theorists of contemporary society, dissects this crisis with exceptional insight and flair.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C1044495</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C1044495</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Han, Byung-Chul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1044495071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509560431/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Vita Contemplativa]]></title><description><![CDATA[In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity – even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life. For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity constitutes the human. Without moments of pause or hesitation, acting deteriorates into blind action and reaction. When life follows the rule of stimulus–response and need–satisfaction, it atrophies into pure survival: naked biological life. If we lose the ability to be inactive, we begin to resemble machines that simply function. True life begins when concern for survival, for the exigencies of mere life, ends. The ultimate purpose of all human endeavour is inactivity. In a beautifully crafted ode to the art of being still, Han shows that the current crisis in our society calls for a very different way of life: one based on the vita contemplative. He pleads for bringing our ceaseless activities to a stop and making room for the magic that happens in between. Life receives its radiance only from inactivity.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C1031424</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C1031424</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Han, Byung-Chul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1031424071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>In Praise of Inactivity</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509558018/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Xi Jinping]]></title><description><![CDATA[This biography skilfully unravelling the hidden story of Xi Jinping's life and career, from his early childhood to his rise to the pinnacles of the Party and the State, they flesh out his views and uncover how he became the most powerful man in the world.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C982729</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C982729</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Aust, Stefan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/982729071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Most Powerful Man in the World</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509555147/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Philosophy of Zen Buddhism]]></title><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C999153</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C999153</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Han, Byung-Chul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/999153071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509545100/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Palliative Society]]></title><description><![CDATA["An incisive critique of our modern desire to avoid pain"-- Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C1004329</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C1004329</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Han, Byung-Chul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1004329071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Pain Today</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781509547241/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item><item><title><![CDATA[Metternich]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is a major biography of Clemens von Metternich (1773-1859), perhaps the most important European politician of the first half of the nineteenth century. Metternich held the highest civilian posts in the Austrian Empire without interruption from 1809 to 1848, helped determine the shape of post-Napoleonic Europe, and established the system of international congresses (the Metternich system) that dominated international relations up to 1918 and set a precedent for the League of Nations and the United Nations. His influence on international affairs in the first half of the century was so profound that the period is sometimes called the Age of Metternich. He is usually considered a stubborn conservative and an enemy of liberalism and nationalism, which then went hand in hand. For many, he represents everything that the revolutionaries of 1848 opposed. In this biography, Wolfram Siemann argues that the conventional view of Metternich is wrong. He writes that Metternich idealized Britain's liberal constitution and aimed to make as much room as possible for liberalism and nationalism as was consistent with his overarching aim: the preservation of peace in Europe, a commitment arising from his horror at the death and destruction of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Drawing on previously unopened archives belonging to the Metternich family, Siemann also presents in full his subject's active personal and social life. Metternich had many mistresses, one of them Napoleon's sister, and counted almost everybody with power in Europe as a friend or enemy.--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C840592</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S71C840592</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Siemann, Wolfram]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://surrey.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/840592071</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Strategist and Visionary</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url>https://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780674743922/MC.GIF&amp;client=surreyp&amp;type=xw12&amp;oclc=</image_url></item></channel></rss>