Byung-Chul Han in this essay reflects on contemporary temporary crisis in dialogue with Nietzsche and Heidegger. The transience of every moment and the absence of a rhythm that gives meaning to life and death, confronts us with a new temporary stage, which has left behind the notion of time as narrative.

According Byung-Chul Han, we are not facing an acceleration of time but before the atomization and dispersion -a temporary disincronía- the caller. Every moment is equal to the other and there is not a rhythm or a course that gives meaning to life. Time flies because nothing ends and everything, including oneself, is experienced as ephemeral and fleeting. Death is a moment longer, thus invalidating the experience of death, Nietzsche and Heidegger for example, as the consummation of a unit with meaning.

This book follows the trail, historically and systematically the causes and symptoms of this dyssynchrony. But the end of time as duration narrative does not have to bring a temporary vacuum. On the contrary, it leads to the possibility of a life that does not need theology nor teleology, which nevertheless has its own aroma. But this requires a change. In the words of Byung-Chul Han, "the temporary crisis will be overcome only when the vita activa, in crisis, welcome back to the contemplative life within it."