An original philosophical analysis of time in a world that constantly seems to be lacking it.

Starting from a universal experience – the feeling of being pressed for time – this text explores a specific state of human existence the author calls "pressure." Being pressed reveals our relationship to time, the body, and finitude, a condition unique to human beings who know their time is limited. This state profoundly shapes the way we exist as subjects and influences our moral behavior, our capacity to love, our relationship to beauty, and our political and spiritual lives. "Pressure" brings to light unexpected dimensions of ourselves that we did not know we carried within us.