{"product_id":"the-varieties-of-temporal-experience-9780231186018","title":"The Varieties of Temporal Experience","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and our experience. Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the bewildering multiplicity of temporal experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Varieties of Temporal Experience\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping, challenging work that brings a unique voice to questions about how we experience time. To enable the reader to dwell in experiences of time in its variety and to experience firstness, providing gentle nudges but not overwhelming the reader with a heavy apparatus, is no small achievement. -- Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University\u003cbr\u003eThis is a rich and highly important work of anthropological thought and creative writing. Through a deft combination of creative nonfiction, ethnographic fieldwork, and autobiographical reflections, Michael Jackson explores the ways that human beings engage with processes of time, history (both personal and collective), memory, and relationships in dynamic, multiple, and pragmatic ways. -- Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College\u003cbr\u003eIn his latest work, Michael Jackson explores enigmas of the past and how stories help us to make our lives easier to live. Jackson’s anthropology draws out the vivid particularities of human experience and spins them into webs of connectivity across time, space, and culture. Like everything else Jackson has written, \u003ci\u003eThe Varieties of Temporal Experience\u003c\/i\u003e juxtaposes philosophy and everyday knowledge in precise and compassionate ways. And the writing is so good, it aches to put this book down. -- Dominic Boyer, Rice University\u003cbr\u003eThis remarkable book traces how a complex tapestry of interlocking temporalities configures our experience. Taking us on a journey across a breathtaking range of moments as a story unfolds, and drawing on a diverse anthropological, literary, and philosophical archive, Jackson sheds light on what it means to live with stories of different times—from the historical to the mythological, the mundane to the fantastic. These stories remind us that life is often uncannily stitched across various temporalities and selves. \u003ci\u003eThe Varieties of Temporal Experience \u003c\/i\u003eis an insightful contribution from one of the humanities’ most sophisticated and original voices. -- Andrew Brandel, Harvard University\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Varieties of Temporal Experience\u003c\/i\u003e is at once ethnographic and biographical. It is about story-telling as a way of repairing the past, but also about the burden of stories and the possibility to live from the present. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Blind Impress\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart One\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003eThat Green Evening\u003cbr\u003eThe Blind Impress\u003cbr\u003eThe Other Side of the Tracks\u003cbr\u003eOf the Woe That Is in Marriage\u003cbr\u003eManawatu\u003cbr\u003eFires of No Return\u003cbr\u003eFugue\u003cbr\u003eShots in the Dark\u003cbr\u003eRecaptured\u003cbr\u003eNo Quarter\u003cbr\u003eEscape\u003cbr\u003eStarting Over\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Two\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeyond the Call of Duty\u003cbr\u003eTalking to Jack Hansen\u003cbr\u003ePassing Strange\u003cbr\u003eStill Life with Lading Lists\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart Three\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Remaining Pieces\u003cbr\u003eGuilt and Shame\u003cbr\u003eDeath’s Secretary\u003cbr\u003eStories Happen\u003cbr\u003eTime and Space\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Enigma of Anteriority\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst Things First\u003cbr\u003eBraided Rivers\u003cbr\u003eAgainst the Grain\u003cbr\u003eNo Direction Home\u003cbr\u003eCrossing Cook Strait\u003cbr\u003eMetaphor of the Table\u003cbr\u003eDestruction and Hope\u003cbr\u003eDistance Looks Our Way\u003cbr\u003eThe Illusion of Corsica\u003cbr\u003eReturn to the Manawatu\u003cbr\u003eBurned Places\u003cbr\u003eRevenant\u003cbr\u003eTe Ãti Awa\u003cbr\u003eSymbolic Landscape\u003cbr\u003eTwo Women\u003cbr\u003eThe Road to Karuna Falls\u003cbr\u003eWhere Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?\u003cbr\u003eTaking a Line for a Walk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfterword\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48864258556247,"sku":"9780231186018","price":25.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231186018.jpg?v=1722271109","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-varieties-of-temporal-experience-9780231186018","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}