Description
Book SynopsisPresents what may well be the first fully integrated theory of time
Trade Review"A highly original and colorful book, filled with compelling, real life and fictional examples." -- Jack Katz,UCLA
"Flaherty invites us to the fascinating world of the phenomenology of time. Particularly sensitive to the inherent tension between the standard and the idiosyncratic, he offers a cross-situational, generic analysis of the circumstances when there is a considerable discrepancy between clock time and our subjective experience of duration such that we feel that time is either compressed (‘flies') or protracted (‘stands still'). . . . Clearly conceptualized and elegantly written, A Watched Pot is phenomenology at its best." -- Eviatar Zerubavel,author of Hidden Rhythms and The Seven Day Circle
"Masterful. This is arguably the most comprehensive inquiry to date by a sociologist on the perception of time, its passage and duration." -- Barry Glassner,University of Southern California
"An engaging and profound analysis of a central aspect of the human condition, for, as Flaherty shows, our experiences of the world around us affect how we experience time." * Qualitative Sociology,Vol. 24, No. 3, 2001 *
