Téléchargez le livre : The Scent of Time

The Scent of Time

A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering de

,

Éditeur :

Polity


Paru le : 2017-09-25

eBook Téléchargement , DRM LCP 🛈 DRM Adobe 🛈
Lecture en ligne (streaming)
16,11 €
Téléchargement immédiat
Dès validation de votre commande
Image Louise Reader présentation

Louise Reader

Lisez ce titre sur l'application Louise Reader.

badge apple Application Louise Reader
badge Android Application Louise Reader
Description

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.
Pages
120 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2017-09-25
Marque
Polity
EAN papier
9781509516049
EAN EPUB
9781509516087
Informations sur l'ebook
Nombre pages copiables
0
Nombre pages imprimables
120
Taille du fichier
307 Ko
Prix
16,11 €

Suggestions personnalisées