Field Notes From Elsewhere - Mark C. Taylor - Kirjat - Columbia University Press - 9780231147811 - tiistai 7. lokakuuta 2014
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Field Notes From Elsewhere


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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, only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. 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, he 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 in light of modern ways of dying.


288 pages, 113 black & white illustrations

Media Kirjat     Book
Julkaisupäivämäärä tiistai 7. lokakuuta 2014
ISBN13 9780231147811
Tuottaja Columbia University Press
Sivujen määrä 288
Mitta 200 × 148 × 18 mm   ·   554 g

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