Novelist, cultural commentator, memoirist, and historian Eva
Hoffman examines our ever-changing perception of time in this
inspired addition to the BIG IDEAS/small books series
Time has always been the great given, the element that
establishes the governing facts of human fate that cannot be
circumvented, deconstructed, or wished away. But these days we are
tampering with time in ways that affect how we live, the textures
of our experience, and our very sense of what it is to be human.
What is the nature of time in our time? Why is it that even as we
live longer than ever before, we feel that we have ever less of
this basic good? What effects do the hyperfast
technologies--computers, video games, instant communications--have
on our inner lives and even our bodies? And as we examine biology
and mind on evermore microscopic levels, what are we learning about
the process and parameters of human time? Hoffman regards our
relationship to time--from jet lag to aging, sleep to cryogenic
freezing--in this broad, eye-opening meditation on life's essential
medium and its contemporary challenges.
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