On borrowed time: the art and economy of living with deadlines
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1. Verfasser: Weinrich, Harald 1927-2022 (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-231) and index
1 Life is Short, Art is Long; 2 The Midpoint of Life; 3 Limited Time in this World and in the Next; 4 Short and Shortest Times; 5 The Economy of Limited Time; 6 The Drama of Time in Short Supply; 7 Finitude, Infinity; 8 Living with Deadlines; 9 Short Stories about Short Deadlines; 10 Epilogue on the Sense of Time; Notes; Index
Life is short. This indisputable fact of existence has driven human ingenuity since antiquity, whether through efforts to lengthen our lives with medicine or shorten the amount of time we spend on work using technology. Alongside this struggle to manage the pressure of life's ultimate deadline, human perception of the passage and effects of time has also changed. In On Borrowed Time, Harald Weinrich examines an extraordinary range of materials--from Hippocrates to Run Lola Run--to put forth a new conception of time and its limits that, unlike older models, is firmly grounded in human experience
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (243 pages)
ISBN:0226886034
9780226886039

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