From the Publisher
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"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
"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
"A highly original and colorful book, filled with compelling, real life and fictional examples."
-Jack Katz,UCLA
"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
Barry Glassner
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
Jack Katz
A highly original and colorful book\, filled with compelling\, real life and fictional examples.
Jack Katz, UCLA
Eviatar Zerubavel
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"). His examination of such temporal anomalies draws on equally-compelling fictional and real first-person accounts. Clearly conceptualized and elegantly written, A Watched Pot is phenomenology at its best. (Eviatar Zerubavel, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University and author of Hidden Rhythms and The Seven-Day Circle)