Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity

by Byung-Chul Han

Book Overview

In our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity - even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life.

For Byung-Chul Han, inactivity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509558012
• ISBN13: 9781509558018
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.3"