Byung-Chul Han

Byung-Chul Han was born in 1959 in Seoul, South Korea. In 1980, he moved to Germany, where he studied Philosophy, German Literature, and Catholic Theology in Freiburg and Munich. In 1994, he earned his doctorate with a dissertation on Heidegger's work. In 2000, he began his career as a professor at the University of Basel. In 2010, he joined the University of Karlsruhe, delving into 18th, 19th, and 20th-century Philosophy, Ethics, Social Philosophy, Phenomenology, Cultural Theory, Aesthetics, Religion, Media Theory, and Intercultural Philosophy. Since 2012, he has been teaching Philosophy and Culture at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He has authored more than twenty books.