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The Image of Man in the Contemporary Society in the Thought of Byung-Chul Han
Jech, Martin ; Mlynář, Jakub (advisor) ; Skovajsa, Marek (referee)
(in English): The topic of this bachelor thesis is the reflection of contemporary late modern capitalist society and neoliberalism and forms of violence in society, as well as digital media. Within this framework, the main goal of the thesis is to depict an image of human individual as portrayed in the works of the contemporary author Byung-Chul Han. It is purely a theoretical work based on the detailed analysis of Han's essays and partly also the authors that Han builds on. Firstly, the bachelor's thesis deals with the macrosociological description of contemporary society, especially the transition from the so-called disciplinary society, based on various forms of negativity, to contemporary, so-called society of positivity and performance, which abandons all forms of negativity mainly to maximize Capital. In this general sociological framework, the image of the contemporary man as an actor in socio-economic relations is then presented, with an emphasis on his transformation from a subject to a self-exploiting project, which nowadays becomes a kind of new homo sacer whose life form is merely a bare life that must be preserved, vital and productive. This work also deals with the topics of the human body, beauty and interpersonal relationships, which are perceived against the background of the...
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