La inconsumada moral de esclavo en la sociedad del rendimiento

Abstract

Byung-Chul Han, in most of his works, describes social, cultural and ideological transformations of the agrarian, disciplinary and contemporary societies; however, the field of morality is not addressed, leaving in question whether or not it swapped along with the passage of each society. It is hypothesized that despite the notable differences between these three societies, morality (in Nietzschean terms, that is, as a notion imposed and collectively configured by an established power) did not radically permute considering that categories such as guilt, bad conscience, and even resentment are still in force in the construction of subjectivities and modes of relationship. On that horizon, while relevant transformations occur in the agrarian, disciplinary and current society, concerning the field of morality, rather than changes, a continuity is inferred. The slave morality, named as such by Nietzsche, crossed the flesh of the human being and settled down in his conscience, to such an extent that not even the passage of time and the change in social structures have been able to eradicate it definitively.