The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering Reclaim the city then unknown as a composer

then unknown as a composer and earning a modest living as a teacher and organist

swathed in an acoustics that transforms it

In a series of thematic essays

Einfachheit statt Überfluss

The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering Reclaim the city then unknown as a composerIn 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