The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering -- Byung-Chul Han, Paperback

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The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering -- Byung-Chul Han, PaperbackIn 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

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