Vita Contemplativa

Byung-Chul, Han

Daniel Steuer

Polity Press

Topologie der Gewalt

Matthes & Seitz Berlin

Psikopolitika: Neoliberalizm ve Yeni İktidar Teknikleri (Turkish Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Metis Yayıncılık

Vita contemplativa ou sobre a inatividade (Em Portugues do Brasil)

FisicalBook

The Worn-out Society (Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

CITIC Press Corporation

Contemplative Life: Praise of Inactivity(Hardcover) (Chinese Edition)

In 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 linger and the faculty of contemplation. It therefore becomes impossible to experience time as fulfilling. Drawing on a range of thinkers including Heidegger, Nietzsche and Arendt, Han argues that we can overcome this temporal crisis only by revitalizing the vita contemplativa and relearning the art of lingering. For what distinguishes humans from other animals is the capacity for reflection and contemplation, and when life regains this capacity, this art of lingering, it gains in time and space, in duration and vastness.

The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering (Chinese Edition)

Chongqing University Press

Hiperculturalidad

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Herder Editorial

Hegel y el poder: Un ensayo sobre la amabilidad

<p>La Tierra da vida y renueva. Su poder regenerador es latente e inescrutable, creador y paciente. En esta original obra, Byung-chul Han convierte la jardinería en un arte donde ejercer la meditación y reflexionar sobre la belleza, la vida y el culto. En jardinería, esta potencia de vida se puede apreciar y aprender. Más que una mera técnica, el cultivo de las plantas brinda el reconocimiento y agradecimiento a esta excelsitud subterránea. La jardinería, entonces, se convierte en un arte donde se ejerce la meditación y la plegaria en una apuesta por la recuperación de la unidad original entre cultivo y culto. /// In this original work, Byung-chul Han turns gardening into an art where you can exercise meditation and reflect on beauty, life, and worship. In gardening, this power of life can be appreciated and learned. Gardening then becomes an art where meditation and prayer are exercised in a commitment to the recovery of the original unity between cultivation and worship.</p>

Loa a la tierra: Un viaje al jardín (Spanish Edition)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

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