The varieties of temporal experience : travels in philosophical, historical, and ethnographic time

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The varieties of temporal experience : travels in philosophical, historical, and ethnographic time

Michael Jackson

Columbia University Press, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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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Contents Preface The Blind Impress Part One 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 Part Two Beyond the Call of Duty Talking to Jack Hansen Passing Strange Still Life with Lading Lists Part Three 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 Ati Awa Symbolic Landscape Two 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

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