The Conference Trilogy

Music plays a fundamental role in Byung-Chul Han’s thinking. With his unmistakable style, he approaches a series of recurrent themes in all of his work like musical variations. His clean and precise language, combined with the brevity of his work, draws on the German philosophical tradition that preceded him to create a speech with underlying theoretical depth.

• The first volume of this trilogy, The Tonality of Thought, brings together Byung-Chul Han’s conferences delivered in April 2023 in Porto and Lisbon, as well as the lecture concert that took place on April 23 in Leipzig alongside pianist Sharon Prushansky.
• The second volume, The Spirit of Hope will gather the philosopher’s conferences that took place at the universities of Heidelberg and Freiburg in June 2023.
• The third volume, The Time of Other, will collect the conferences that will take place in November 2023 and spring 2024 in Berlin.

The Conference Trilogy offers much more than the author’s conference texts. At the end of each text, a QR code will be included, leading the reader to each of the conference videos. Additionally, the texts will be complemented with photographs from each of the events. This is all done with the aim of providing a meticulously crafted cherished for the philosopher’s extensive readership.