On Borrowed Time
Subtitle: The Art and Economy of Living with Deadlines
Contributors: Steven Rendall (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: July 1, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226886015
Subjects: General; Philosophy / General; Philosophy
Description: "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."--Jacket.