Time and the Art of Living - Softcover

Grudin, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0899197892 ISBN 13: 9780899197890

Publisher: Ticknor & Fields,1988, c1982., 1988

Synopsis

Drawing on philosophy, science, literature, history, personal experience, and his own marvelously playful and inventive imagination, Grudin examines the concept of time from a variety of angles.

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Review:

"Time and the Art of Living" is a philosophical essay about the relationship between two facts: that we each "strut and fret upon the stage" for a terrifyingly short slice of objective time, and that subjective time, our experience of temporality, is deeply informed by our chosen activities and our character.

Robert Grudin thinks that our subjective sense of time is largely determined by the degree and quality of attention we pay to our memories and our sense of the future. (It is a mark of the unhappy that they are trapped in the present without a larger sense of connection to the enduring self.) And he argues persuasively that the successful and the fulfilled become so because of the control they exercise over this subjective temporal embodiment. At its best, Time and the Art of Living is a profound book with lyrically beautiful prose. --Richard Farr

About the Author:

ROBERT GRUDIN is a professor of English at the University of Oregon.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ticknor & Fields,1988, c1982.
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0899197892
• ISBN 13: 9780899197890
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 190