Comunicação e Sociedade (Jun 2019)

Han, B.-C. (2016). O aroma do tempo. Um ensaio filosófico sobre a arte da demora. Lisboa: Relógio d’Água.

  • Vítor de Sousa

DOI
https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.35(2019).3144
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 35
pp. 287 – 292

Abstract

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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)...