Field Notes from Elsewhere Reflections on Dying and Living

Name: Field Notes from Elsewhere Reflections on Dying and Living
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ISBN: 9780231147804

ISBN-10: 0231147805

ISBN-13: 9780231147804

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark C. Taylor

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In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days, a team of forty doctors fought to save his life, with many giving him up for dead. Taylor would eventually recover, but only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. "These experiences have changed me in ways I am still struggling to understand," Taylor writes in this absorbing memoir. "After the past year, I am persuaded that I have done enough fieldwork to write a book that combines philosophical and theological reflection with autobiographical narrative. Writing is not only possible but actually seems necessary."Field Notes From Elsewhereis Taylor's unforgettable,…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.42" wide x 8.27" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English




Day Night



Beginning Origin



Elsewhere Silence



Reflections Reticence



Premonitions Postcards



Home Afterlife



Stealth Sacrifice



Killing Elemental



Abandonment Mortality



Displacement Place



Creativity Thinking



EMergence Emptiness



Walls Garden



Painting Play



Perhaps Numbers



Pleasure Money



Vocation Teaching



Last Burial



Solitude Loneliness



Things Ghosts



Levity Grief



Humor Monsters



Faction Dishonesty



Inheritance Withholding



Letting Go Dinnertime



Compassion Suffering



Clouds Waiting



Freedom Terror



Forgiveness Cruelty



Daughters Obsession



Failure Success



Balance Simplicity



Face Aging



Stigma Autoimmunity



Patience Chronicity



Technology Addiction



Pain Intimacy



Blindness Aura



Cancer Surviving



Trust Bitterness



Hands Will



Secrets Tripping



Strangers Tips



Sharing Fatigue



Idleness Guilt



Driving Accident



Imperfection Vulnerability



Friendship Doubt



Love Fidelity



Hope Despair



Happiness Melancholy



Ordinary Extraordinary


Notes


Acknowledgments