Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity
Byung-Chul Han, "Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity"
English | ISBN: 1509558012 | 2023 | 128 pages | EPUB | 254 KB
English | ISBN: 1509558012 | 2023 | 128 pages | EPUB | 254 KB
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.
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