Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity Craftmanship Her forthcoming book Enchantment will

Her forthcoming book Enchantment will be published by Faber in 2023

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Vita Contemplativa: In Praise of Inactivity Craftmanship Her forthcoming book Enchantment willIn our busy and hurried lives, we are losing the ability to be inactive. Human existence becomes fully absorbed by activity even leisure, treated as a respite from work, becomes part of the same logic. Intense life today means first of all more performance or more consumption. We have forgotten that it is precisely inactivity, which does not produce anything, that represents an intense and radiant form of life. For Byung Chul Han, inactivity