Saving Beauty

Beauty today is a paradox. The cult of beauty is ubiquitous but it has lost its transcendence and become little more than an aspect of consumerism, the aesthetic dimension of capitalism. The sublime and unsettling aspects of beauty have given way to corporeal pleasures and ''likes'', resulting in a kind of ''pornography'' of beauty.

In this book, cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han reinvigorates aesth...