> I believe Han excels in the latter and is bringing more and more thinkers from different fields to think about the fundamental problems of society, people with technical and scientific backgrounds that would otherwise not join the debate and help design a better society.
He had one hit book fifteen years ago and now exists primarily as a meme. One doesn’t really see people deeply engaging with his arguments; they tend to agree that whatever the object of the new book is “a problem” and fill in the details with their own ideology.
Or maybe I’m wrong! I’d be interested in a link to someone actually taking him seriously, whether within or without philosophy.
Why do you need a proxy? Can't you just go read his materials and see for yourself if you should take him serious or not? Do the work if you are really that interested, I think you won't be disappointed.
I think he's taken pretty seriously. He was tenured at UdK for a while, which is a very prestigious European university. But somehow he has pushed Chomsky off the mantle to become the poster-boy for the criticism of neoliberalism. This is really not helping him shed the meme of being some kind of K-pop philosopher.
By “taking him seriously” I meant “engages with his ideas/texts/critiques deeply, on more than a surface level” which is different than “acknowledges him as a competent, popular, professional philosopher.”
Geez, how did I miss this. I must be underexposed to whatever medium this is happening on.
On which platform is Han considered to be Chomsky 2.0? Any links to this, or to other "hip" critiques of neoliberalism, from him or others? Memes welcome.
He had one hit book fifteen years ago and now exists primarily as a meme. One doesn’t really see people deeply engaging with his arguments; they tend to agree that whatever the object of the new book is “a problem” and fill in the details with their own ideology.
Or maybe I’m wrong! I’d be interested in a link to someone actually taking him seriously, whether within or without philosophy.