A new book by Korean Byung-Chul Han—“the most widely read of living German philosophers,” according to El Pais!
In the essay “The Aroma of Time”, Byung-Chul Han reflects on the crisis of our perception of time: the fleeting nature of each moment, hyperactivity, and the absence of rhythm. Every moment is the same as the previous one, and there is neither dynamism nor direction that give life meaning.
According to Byung-Chul Han, “the time crisis will be overcome only when vita activa (active life) in the full crisis once again accepts vita contemplativa (contemplative life) into its embrace.”