Field Notes from Elsewhere : : Reflections on Dying and Living / / Mark C. Taylor.
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: sur...
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| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1. Day / Night
- 2. Beginning / Origin
- 3. Elsewhere / Silence
- 4. Reflections / Reticence
- 5. Premonitions / Postcards
- 6. Home / Afterlife
- 7. Stealth / Sacrifice
- 8. Killing / Elemental
- 9. Abandonment / Mortality
- 10. Displacement / Place
- 11. Creativity / Thinking
- 12. E/Mergence / Emptiness
- 13. Walls / Garden
- 14. Painting / Play
- 15. Perhaps / Numbers
- 16. Pleasure / Money
- 17. Vocation / Teaching
- 18. Last / Burial
- 19. Solitude / Loneliness
- 20. Things / Ghosts
- 21. Levity / Grief
- 22. Humor / Monsters
- 23. Faction / Dishonesty
- 24. Inheritance / Withholding
- 25. Letting Go / Dinnertime
- 26. Compassion / Suffering
- 27. Clouds / Waiting
- 28. Freedom / Terror
- 29. Forgiveness / Cruelty
- 30. Daughters / Obsession
- 31. Failure / Success
- 32. Balance / Simplicity
- 33. Face / Aging
- 34. Stigma / Autoimmunity
- 35. Patience / Chronicity
- 36. Technology / Addiction
- 37. Pain / Intimacy
- 38. Blindness / Aura
- 39. Cancer / Surviving
- 40. Trust / Bitterness
- 41. Hands / Will
- 42. Secrets / Tripping
- 43. Strangers / Tips
- 44. Sharing / Fatigue
- 45. Idleness / Guilt
- 46. Driving / Accident
- 47. Imperfection / Vulnerability
- 48. Friendship / Doubt
- 49. Love / Fidelity
- 50. Hope / Despair
- 51. Happiness / Melancholy
- 52. Ordinary / Extraordinary
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Also by Mark C. Taylor