Open AccessHan, B.-C. (2016). O aroma do tempo. Um ensaio filosófico sobre a arte da demora. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água.
Author(s) -
Vítor de Sousa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
comunicação e sociedade
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-3575
pISSN - 1645-2089
DOI - 10.17231/comsoc.35(2019).3144
Subject(s) - humanities , philosophy , art
In his essay, O aroma do tempo. Um ensaio filosófico sobre a arte da demora [The scent of time. A philosophical essay on the art of delay] (2016), originally published in Germany, in 2007, Byung-Chul Han argues that contemporary life is overpowered not by the continuous acceleration of time, but rather a temporal crisis caused by a dyschronicity (a discontinuity), which is simply the atomization of time with no direction, order or end that prevents it from lasting (lingering)...