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Byung‐Chul Han and Josef Pieper on Festivity. An Attempt to Rehabilitate the Culture of Festivity in the Time of Mere Survival

The objective of this paper is an attempt to rehabilitate the culture of festivity in the present time of capital accumulation, labor hysteria, and health fetishization. By a comparative textological analysis of the works of South Korean–German philosopher Byung‐Chul Han and German philosopher Josef Pieper, we have arrived at two potential fundamentals that might lead toward rehabilitation of festivity in the present time of non‐festivity. The first fundamental is the endurance of tedium, and the second one is the arts and artistic literature. These two fundamentals have led us to a conclusion that the present‐day man necessitates a new narrative for the culture of veritable festivity, formulated in serenity, contemplation, and love and based upon the divine, which is a conditio sine qua non of veritable festivity.

Byung‐Chul Han, Josef Pieper, anxiety, festivity, tedium, arts, artistic litera‐ ture, contemplation

Cilj ovoga rada jest pokušaj rehabilitacije kulture slavlja u današnjem vremenu akumulacije kapitala, histerije rada i fetišizacije zdravlja. Komparativnom tekstološkom analizom djȇlā južnokorejsko‐njemačkoga filozofa Byung‐Chul Hana i njemačkoga filozofa Josefa Piepera došli smo do dvaju potencijalnih temelja koji mogu voditi k rehabilitaciji slavlja u današnjem doba neslavljenja. Prvi temelj jest podnošenje dosade, a drugi umjetnost i umjetnička književnost. Ta dva temelja dovela su nas do zaključka da je današnjemu čovjeku za kulturu istinskoga slavlja potreban novi narativ, oblikovan u spokoju, kontemplaciji i ljubavi te utemeljen na božanskome, koje je conditio sine qua non istinskoga slavlja.