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Books

Enduring Time by Lisa Baraitser

Amber Edwards explores suspended time.

Enduring Time is a philosophical discourse concerning time as explored through ‘temporal suspension’. I enjoyed the text for the unique way in which Lisa Baraitser – a professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London – structures her argument, using examples to depict the temporality of caring for others.

The main aim of Enduring Time is to explore the nature of time through its suspension – surely a timely idea in these suspended times. ‘Suspended time’ is not simply time which stops, but is a different form of present which is stuck and will not pass; time which is intensely felt and yet radically static, leaving no direction or purpose. Baraitser is interested in what this form of time can tell us about how we are living time.

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