Passing Time

»Graced with lyricism, Passing Time is a thoughtful and wide-ranging meditation on the ways in which human beings are compelled? - ?and choose - ?to mark time, from earliest childhood to the final moments of life. This is an unsparing, yet often poetic, essay on the ordeals and pleasures inherent in the universal experience of waiting.« Reprinted with kind permission of Upper West Side Philosophers

»a book dripping with wisdom. Köhler has an exquisite feeling for the tempo and the temporality that is required for a decent and beautiful life [...]« Leon Wieseltier

»This is one of the most thoughtful, insightful, and enchanting books I have read in a long while. Köhler draws on personal experience as well as the testaments of literature and philosophy to show how waiting, in its various modalities, lies at the heart of the human condition. A book to be reread many times.« Robert Pogue Harrison

»abundant in content [...] cosmopolitan [...] a lively challenge to the passage of time.« Publishers Weekly

»A lovely jeu d’esprit for those who like their abeyance with a touch of the metaphysical.« Kirkus Reviews