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020 _a9780231147804 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a0231147805 (cloth : alk. paper)
020 _a9780231520034 (ebook)
020 _a0231520034 (ebook)
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn297405194
035 _a(OCoLC)297405194
035 _a(NNC)7448273
040 _aDLC
_cThe Mico University College
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050 0 0 _aBD444
_b.T355 2009
082 0 0 _a191 TAY
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100 1 _d1945-
245 1 0 _aField notes from elsewhere :
_breflections on dying and living /
_cMark C. Taylor.
260 _aNew York :
_bColumbia University Press,
_cc2009.
300 _avi, 292 p. :
_bill. ;
_c21 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 1 _a"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 int his 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 form 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 with 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."--BOOK JACKET.
600 1 0 _aTaylor, Mark C.,
_d1945-
650 0 _aDeath.
900 _bTOC
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