Read Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

Mark C. Taylor

4.9/5 (24856 ratings)

Description:In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. 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 Elsewhere is Taylor's unforgettable, inverted journey from death to life. Each of his memoir's fifty-two chapters and accompanying photographs recounts a morning-to-evening experience with sickness and convalescence, mingling humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, Taylor explains, the axis of the lived world shifts, and everything must be reevaluated. As Taylor sorts through his remembrances, much that once seemed familiar becomes strange, paradoxical, and contradictory. He reads his experience with and against ghosts from his past, recasting the meaning of mortality, sacrifice, solitude, and abandonment, along with a host of other issues, in light of modern ways of dying. "You never come back from elsewhere," Taylor concludes, "because elsewhere always comes back with you."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living. To get started finding Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Pages: 288

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: —

Release: 2009

ISBN: 0231520034

Description: In the fall of 2005, Mark C. Taylor, the controversial public intellectual and widely respected scholar, suddenly fell critically ill. For two days a team of forty doctors, many of whom thought he would not live, fought to save him. 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 Elsewhere is Taylor's unforgettable, inverted journey from death to life. Each of his memoir's fifty-two chapters and accompanying photographs recounts a morning-to-evening experience with sickness and convalescence, mingling humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, Taylor explains, the axis of the lived world shifts, and everything must be reevaluated. As Taylor sorts through his remembrances, much that once seemed familiar becomes strange, paradoxical, and contradictory. He reads his experience with and against ghosts from his past, recasting the meaning of mortality, sacrifice, solitude, and abandonment, along with a host of other issues, in light of modern ways of dying. "You never come back from elsewhere," Taylor concludes, "because elsewhere always comes back with you."We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living. To get started finding Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.

Special Offer | $0.00

Special Offer! | $0.00

Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living

More Books

Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Speed Limits: Where Time Went and Why We Have So Little Left

Theology at the End of the Century: A Dialogue on the Postmodern With Thomas J.J. Altizer, Mark C. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist and Robert P. Scharle (Studies in Religion and Culture)

Theology at the End of the Century: A Dialogue on the Postmodern With Thomas J.J. Altizer, Mark C. Taylor, Charles E. Winquist and Robert P. Scharle (Studies in Religion and Culture)

After God (Religion and Postmodernism)

After God (Religion and Postmodernism)

Erring: A Postmodern A/theology

Erring: A Postmodern A/theology

The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture

The Moment of Complexity: Emerging Network Culture

Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

Crisis on Campus: A Bold Plan for Reforming Our Colleges and Universities

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Critical Terms for Religious Studies

Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 12)

Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo (Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 12)

After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future

After the Human: A Philosophy for the Future