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The Scent of Time

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Scent of Time

By Byung-Chul Han

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About the book

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 th...Show more

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9781509516056

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Polity Press

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2017

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The Scent of Time

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