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The palm at the end of the mind : relatedness, religiosity, and the real / Michael Jackson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Michael, 1940-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jackson, Michael, 1940---Travel.
- Jackson, Michael.
- Existentialism.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (258 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through sixty-one beautifully crafted, concise essays, the anthropologist Michael Jackson reflects on life situations where we are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding ourselves and connecting with others.
- Contents:
- The real
- Only connect
- 95 Irving street
- Reconnecting
- Missed connections
- Tertium quid
- The dead
- Mind the gap
- The genealogical imagination
- The penumbral
- After midnight
- Second skins
- On not severing the vine when harvesting the grape
- Corrupted con-texts
- The broken heart
- Incarnations
- The matrixial
- A letter from Athens
- Emily's journal
- Beginnings
- The pain in painting
- Paths
- Parallel lives
- My lunch with Arthur
- The wellness narratives
- Night
- Outside the window
- "What really matters"
- Knots
- Marina del Rey
- In limbo
- In media res
- In Wellington
- The enigma of anteriority
- Survivor guilt
- Ventifact
- Measured talk
- Heaven and hell
- Manifest destiny
- The nature of things
- The road of excess
- The eternal ones of the dream
- Strange lights
- Recognitions
- The other portion
- It happens
- Ships that pass in the night
- Cafe Stelling
- Value judgments
- The bottle imp
- Marginal notes
- A storyteller's story
- Big thing and small thing
- Sacrifice
- Prince Vessantara
- The girl who went beneath the water
- Ill-gotten gains
- Is nothing sacred?
- Return to the Cafe Stelling
- Metanoia
- The place where we live.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613036551
- 9781283036559
- 128303655X
- 9780822343592
- 0822343592
- OCLC:
- 317321653
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