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“More Party and More Nap”: the Reinvindication of the Philosopher Byung-Chul Han During the Princess of Asturias Awards Week

Summary by El Pais
The German philosopher and essayist of South Korean origin Byung-Chul Han, Princess of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanities 2025, has claimed the culture of “the feast and nap” rooted in countries like Italy and Spain to combat the tendency to consumerist individualism that fosters neoliberalism.

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The German philosopher and essayist of South Korean origin Byung-Chul Han, Princess of Asturias Prize for Communication and Humanities 2025, has claimed the culture of “the feast and nap” rooted in countries like Italy and Spain to combat the tendency to consumerist individualism that fosters neoliberalism.

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The Princess of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities 2025 explains in Oviedo his gaze on the great malaise of "late capitalism." "My hope is that the system, with its cracks, will destroy its foundations." Read

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All eyes are on Princess Leonor: In Oviedo, she is about to launch a new era. Palace insiders speak of a decision which is intended to finally strengthen her position.The red velvet curtain rises, the light falls on the stage of the Teatro Campoamor, the Opera House of Oviedo – and all eyes are directed at Crown Princess Leonor, 19.On October 24, 2025, in the capital of the Princeship of Asturias, the oldest daughter of King Felipe, 57, will be …

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Before the talk, the music, with Marta Espinós to the piano and the Variations of Goldberg. Then the introduction of the guest, extensive, speaking of him as a kind of philosopher monk. Finally, Byung-Chul Han, Princess of Asturias of Communication and Humanities 2025, appeared on the stage of the theatre Jovellanos, in Gijón, and, without many subtleties, scolded the presenter: “You have invented something in my biography: that I had opened a b…

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The first time Byung-Chul Han gave a press conference in his life was in Oviedo, this very Tuesday at noon, and it was perhaps that lack of habit and his apparent refusal to express himself in public, as he warned, which made him turn the appearance into a sort of conference of almost an hour for which he needed only four questions from the press and a long introduction.

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Tuesday, October 21, 2025.
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