Overview
De la mano Byung-Chul Han, el filósofo contemporáneo más leído y Premio Princesa de Asturias de Comunicación y Humanidades 2025, nos llega una reflexión brillante y serena en conversación con el pensamiento de Simone Weil.
Un ensayo breve, profundo y luminoso sobre cómo vivir hoy con sentido.
Simone Weil es, en palabras de Byung-Chul Han, la figura intelectual más brillante del siglo XX. En este ensayo breve y visionario, el filósofo surcoreano reinterpreta la obra de la filósofa francesa como una brújula ética y espiritual para nuestro tiempo. Frente a un mundo dominado por el rendimiento, el consumo y la hiperactividad, Weil —y con ella Han— nos invita a redescubrir el vacío, el silencio, la atención y la trascendencia como formas de vida posibles y necesarias.
Con un tono íntimo y meditativo, Han establece un diálogo entre siete conceptos fundamentales del pensamiento de Weil —atención, descreación, vacío, silencio, belleza, dolor e inactividad— y las heridas contemporáneas: la saturación digital, el individualismo, la pérdida de sentido y el colapso espiritual. A fin de cuentas, Weil nos conduce —nos seduce, dice Han— hacia otra realidad: una vida más libre, más honda, menos sometida al ruido y a la eficiencia.
En tiempos de crisis, este libro ofrece una forma de consuelo que no evita el dolor, sino que lo abraza como vía de elevación. Una lectura que calma, sacude y transforma.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
From Byung-Chul Han, the most widely read contemporary philosopher and 2025 Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, comes a brilliant and serene reflection in dialogue with Simone Weil’s thought.
A brief, profound, and luminous essay on how to live today with meaning.
Simone Weil is, in Han’s words, the most brilliant intellectual figure of the twentieth century. In this visionary short essay, the South Korean philosopher reinterprets the work of the French thinker as an ethical and spiritual compass for our time. In a world dominated by performance, consumption, and hyperactivity, Weil —and with her Han— invites us to rediscover emptiness, silence, attention, and transcendence as possible and necessary ways of life.
With an intimate and meditative tone, Han establishes a dialogue between seven fundamental concepts of Weil’s thought —attention, decreation, emptiness, silence, beauty, suffering, and inactivity— and contemporary wounds: digital saturation, individualism, loss of meaning, and spiritual collapse. Ultimately, Weil leads us —seduces us, Han says— toward another reality: a freer, deeper life, less subjected to noise and efficiency.
In times of crisis, this book offers a form of consolation that does not avoid pain but embraces it as a path to elevation. A reading that soothes, shakes, and transforms.
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