| title | authors | translator | course | tags | year | olid | oclc | publisher | address | pages | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
The Scent of Time: A Philosophical Essay on the Art of Lingering |
|
Daniel Steuer |
time |
|
2017 |
OL33559781M |
993752413 |
Polity Press |
Cambridge, UK |
68 |
The age of haste, its cinematographic succession of point-like presences, has no access to beauty or to truth. Only in lingering contemplation, even ascetic restraint, do things unveil their beauty, their fragrant essence.
A spirited defense of slowing down in a world obsessed by acceleration.