The Transparency Society

Name: The Transparency Society
Author: Byung-Chul Han
ISBN: 9780804797511

by Byung-Chul Han

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Transparency is the order of the day. It is a term, a slogan, that dominates public discourse about corruption and freedom of information. Considered crucial to democracy, it touches our political and economic lives as well as our private lives. Anyone can obtain information about anything. Everything—and everyone—has become transparent: unveiled or exposed by the apparatuses that exert a kind of collective control over the post-capitalist world. Yet, transparency has a dark side that, ironicall...

First published 2012 71 pages

Category: Philosophy
Priority: Recommended
Author works: 3
Editions known: 7

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LCC HM-0661.00000000.H3613 2015 Freedom of informationGesellschaftInformationsfreiheitInternetInternet, social aspectsSelf-disclosureSocial aspectsSocial control

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ISBN 9780804797511 English First-edition ISBN: 9788425432521

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