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Time

By Eva Hoffman

Book information

Publisher
Profile
Year
2010
ISBN
9781846680434, 9781847652591
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1814976 bytes)
Series
Big Ideas
Pages
\0
Time added
2023-01-22 08:51:59
Philosophy; Sociology; Nonfiction; PHI000000

Description

Time has always been the great Given, a fact of existence which cannot be denied or wished away; but the character of lived time is changing dramatically. Medical advances extend our longevity, while digital devices compress time into ever briefer units. We can now exist in several time-zones simultaneously, but we suffer from endemic shortages of time. We are working longer hours and blurring the distinctions between labour and leisure. For many, in an inversion of the old adage, time has become more valuable than money. In this look at life's most ineffable element, spanning fields from biology and culture to psychoanalysis and neuroscience, Eva Hoffman asks: are we coming to the end of time as we know it?

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