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je55ilo's review
4.5
I really enjoyed chewing this 50 times like a carrot while reading it. I would read a little in the morning, read a little in the evening, go back and re-read to make it make sense (which actually worked?). Loved the experience of reading this.
a_little_person's review
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
It is rare for me that a book has an impact in the immediate daily life. This one has indeed brought me precious thoughts to think, which will certainly positively affect my daily life.
Some sections felt overly complicated, and frankly pedantic. Talking metaphysically about time and space, which from the perspective of someone not knowledgeable on Heidegger and his likes, will end up more confusing than anything else.
Though when the book shines, it's bright. Most of the book is quite paradigm shifting materiel, which enthralled me.
Some sections felt overly complicated, and frankly pedantic. Talking metaphysically about time and space, which from the perspective of someone not knowledgeable on Heidegger and his likes, will end up more confusing than anything else.
Though when the book shines, it's bright. Most of the book is quite paradigm shifting materiel, which enthralled me.
sadiesargar's review
5.0
As someone with a very limited background in reading philosophy, this was occasionally heavy sledding (particularly the sections that focus heavily on Heidegger), but the general sweep of Han's ideas here is fairly breathtaking and paradigm-altering. He cleanly and quickly offers a diagnosis of our inability to hold onto time—what he calls the collapse of duration, the sense that we are always being spurred beyond the present, and that the present always feels hyper-charged—and points to a post-theological and -teleological life of contemplation that centers (if I understood him correctly) around the individual's ability to contemplate an object without focusing on how we might use that object, how we might subsume it into our own ongoing narrative. Profoundly good. Also he gives a strong reading of Proust.
pjv1013's review against another edition
4.0
"A arte da contemplação deve assim superar a mera utilidade acarretada pelo trabalho, que nega o conhecimento do belo e a prática da liberdade. A vita contemplativa, para Chul Han, traduz-se numa “práxis da duração”, um lugar de repouso e estabilidade que evita o curso irracional do tempo descontrolado. Pensar e teorizar é já um acto activo em permanente movimento. À revelia de Hannah Arendt, que acredita enfaticamente no milagre da acção como único meio de alcançar a redenção do humano na era moderna, Byung-Chul Han responde com a apologia de uma vida votada ao prazer da contemplação que, muito provavelmente, terá sido responsável pelos “(…) acontecimentos que formam o mundo e a cultura (…)”. Con-templar (estar no templo) significa alcançar a breve eternidade, o espaço privilegiado dos deuses. É um tempo sem tempo, justamente porque estranha a sensação de um vazio inquieto e funcional. Todo o elogio à eloquente harmonia de demorar está contido nesta passagem: “A demora contemplativa concede tempo. Dá amplidão ao Ser, o que é algo mais do que estar ativo. Quando recupera a capacidade contemplativa, a vida ganha tempo e espaço, duração e amplidão.”
https://revistacaliban.net/a-agradável-sensação-de-durar-94a3ec51f99d
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