The scent of time : a philosophical essay on the art of lingering / Byung-Chul Han, translated by Daniel Steuer.

Main entry:

Han, Byung-Chul, author.

Title & Author:

The scent of time : a philosophical essay on the art of lingering / Byung-Chul Han, translated by Daniel Steuer.

Edition:

English edition.

Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 2017.

Description:

vii, 136 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Non-time -- Time without a scent -- The speed of history -- From the age of marching to the age of whizzing -- The paradox of the present -- Fragrant crystal of time -- The time of the angel -- Fragrant clock: a short excursus on ancient China -- The round dance of the world -- The scent of oak wood -- Profound boredom -- Vita contemplativa.

Summary:

In his philosophical reflections on the art of lingering, acclaimed cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han argues that the value we attach today to the vita activa is producing a crisis in our sense of time. Our attachment to the vita activa creates an imperative to work which degrades the human being into a labouring animal, an animal laborans. At the same time, the hyperactivity which characterizes our daily routines robs human beings of the capacity to linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

ISBN:

9781509516049 (hardback)
1509516042 (hardback)
9781509516056 (paperback)
1509516050 (paperback)

Subject:

Time.
Coincidence.
Time management.
Life.
Contemplation.
Temps.
Gestion du temps.
time.
Zeit
Philosophie

Added entries:

Steuer, Daniel, translator.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 300512
Call No.: BIB 246708
Status: Available

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