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Field Notes From Elsewhere Mark C. Taylor
Field Notes From Elsewhere
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, only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. Field Notes from 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 humor and hope with a deep exploration of human frailty and, conversely, resilience. When we confront the end of life, he 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. He reads his experience with and against ghosts from his past, recasting the meaning of mortality, sacrifice, solitude, and abandonment in light of modern ways of dying.
288 pages, 113 black & white illustrations
| 介质类型 | 图书 Book |
| 已发行 | 2014年10月7日 |
| ISBN13 | 9780231147811 |
| 出版商 | Columbia University Press |
| 页数 | 288 |
| 商品尺寸 | 200 × 148 × 18 mm · 554 g |
