03962nam 2200649 a 450 991078106410332120200520144314.01-282-53776-897866125377690-226-88603-410.7208/9780226886039(CKB)2550000000007448(EBL)485960(OCoLC)593240127(SSID)ssj0000341081(PQKBManifestationID)11255151(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341081(PQKBWorkID)10390623(PQKB)10882777(StDuBDS)EDZ0000122493(MiAaPQ)EBC485960(DE-B1597)525000(OCoLC)956663629(DE-B1597)9780226886039(Au-PeEL)EBL485960(CaPaEBR)ebr10366857(CaONFJC)MIL253776(EXLCZ)99255000000000744820080211d2008 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrOn borrowed time[electronic resource] the art and economy of living with deadlines /Harald Weinrich ; translated by Steven RendallChicago University of Chicago Press20081 online resource (255 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-226-88601-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-231) and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 -- IndexLife 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. Weinrich's analysis of the roots of the word time connects it to the temples of the skull, demonstrating that humans first experienced time in the beating of their pulses. Tracing this corporeal perception of time across literary, religious, and philosophical works, Weinrich concludes that time functions as a kind of sixth sense-the crucial sense that enables the other five. Written with Weinrich's customary narrative elegance, On Borrowed Time is an absorbing-and, fittingly, succinct-meditation on life's inexorable brevity. Time in literatureTimePhilosophydeadlines, meeting a deadline, human perception, passage of time, humanity, experience, understanding, timing, philosophy, philosophical, literature, literary, representation, religion, religious, hippocrates, theophrastus, aristotle, seneca, leon battisti alberti, dante, petrarch, goethe, oscar wilde, thomas mann, ingeborg bachmann, balzac, stefan zweig, marx, homer, heine, benjamin franklin, william shakespeare, jules verne, hugo von hofmannsthal, arthur schnitzler, theodore fontaine, emily dickinson, proust.Time in literature.TimePhilosophy.115Weinrich Harald132589Rendall Steven1513828MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781064103321On borrowed time3767432UNINA