Being time
Burkeman discusses Martin Heidegger's ideas of humans as 'temporal' beings, i.e., that instead of talking about humans having a limited amount of time, in his view it is more appropriate to say that we are a limited amount of time because of how completely our finite time in life defines us.
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Some personal notes and reflections on this excellent book on the impossibility of ‘keeping up’ with time.
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