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Author Jackson, Michael, 1940- author.

Title The varieties of temporal experience : travels in philosophical, historical, and ethnographic time / Michael Jackson.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 295 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prologue -- That green evening -- The blind impress -- The other side of the tracks -- Of the woe that is in marriage -- Manawatu -- Fires of no return -- Fugue -- Shots in the dark -- Recaptured -- No quarter -- Escape -- Starting over -- Beyond the call of duty -- Talking to jack hansen -- Passing strange -- Still life with lading lists -- The remaining pieces -- Guilt and shame -- Death¿s secretary -- Stories happen -- Time and space -- The enigma of anteriority -- First things first -- Braided rivers -- Against the grain -- No direction home -- Crossing cook strait -- Metaphor of the table -- Destruction and hope -- Distance looks our way -- The illusion of corsica -- Return to the manawatu -- Burned places -- Revenant -- Te atiawa -- Symbolic landscape -- Women -- The road to karuna falls -- Where do we come from? : what are we? : where are we going? -- Taking a line for a walk -- Afterword -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in-time. Jackson explores temporality in a subjective mode as a form of literary anthropology. The first part of the book tells the story of John Joseph Pawelka, whose 1910 escape from prison and subsequent disappearance became one of New Zealand's great unsolved mysteries, discussing what it reveals about the interplay of popular stories, hidden histories, and media narratives in constructing allegories of national and moral identity. In the second, Jackson reflects on journeys up and down the islands of New Zealand, touching on the ways that personal stories are interwoven with social and historical events. Throughout this groundbreaking book, Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the extraordinary variety of temporal experience, at the same time exploring the ethical and existential quandaries that arise from the complexity of lived time.
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Subject Time perception.
Time perception.
Time -- Psychologial aspects.
Time.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9780231186001 0231186002 (DLC) 2017049990
ISBN 9780231546447 (electronic book)
0231546440 (electronic book)
9780231186001
0231186002
9780231186018
0231186010