The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering
ISBN-13:
9781509516056
ISBN-10:
1509516050
Edition:
1
Author:
Byung-Chul Han
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Polity
Format:
Paperback
120 pages
Category:
Metaphysics
,
Philosophy
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ISBN-13:
9781509516056
ISBN-10:
1509516050
Edition:
1
Author:
Byung-Chul Han
Publication date:
2017
Publisher:
Polity
Format:
Paperback
120 pages
Category:
Metaphysics
,
Philosophy
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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering (ISBN-13: 9781509516056 and ISBN-10: 1509516050), written by authors
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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.
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