Zeit

A book about life: What does time do to us? And what do we make of it? Rüdiger Safranski encourages us to reclaim the richness of the experience of time. Beyond the clocks that make us believe in an objective measure of time, we experience time quite differently, when bored and when worried. And again differently when deadlines are approaching, especially in this accelerated economic world of globe-spanning media. Safranski describes the tension between passing and persistence in a multifaceted way and encourages us to be attentive to the precious commodity that is our time.