The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time

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Professor Michael D. Jackson (Harvard Divinity School)

The Varieties of Temporal Experience

Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time

Professor Michael D. Jackson (Harvard Divinity School)

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Columbia University Press
10 April 2018

Historiography; Philosophy; Anthropology

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.

By: Professor Michael D. Jackson (Harvard Divinity School)
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9780231186001
ISBN 10: 0231186002
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 10 April 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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 Ãti 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

Michael Jackson is Distinguished Professor of World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. His Columbia University Press books include As Wide as the World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology (2016) and The Work of Art: Rethinking the Elementary Forms of Religious Life (2016).

Reviews for The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time

This remarkable book traces how a complex tapestry of interlocking temporalities configures our experience. Taking us on a journey across a breathtaking range of moments as a story unfolds, and drawing on a diverse anthropological, literary, and philosophical archive, Jackson sheds light on what it means to live with stories of different times-from the historical to the mythological, the mundane to the fantastic. These stories remind us that life is often uncannily stitched across various temporalities and selves. The Varieties of Temporal Experience is an insightful contribution from one of the humanities' most sophisticated and original voices. -- Andrew Brandel, Harvard University In his latest work, Michael Jackson explores enigmas of the past and how stories help us to make our lives easier to live. Jackson's anthropology draws out the vivid particularities of human experience and spins them into webs of connectivity across time, space, and culture. Like everything else Jackson has written, The Varieties of Temporal Experience juxtaposes philosophy and everyday knowledge in precise and compassionate ways. And the writing is so good, it aches to put this book down. -- Dominic Boyer, Rice University This is a rich and highly important work of anthropological thought and creative writing. Through a deft combination of creative nonfiction, ethnographic fieldwork, and autobiographical reflections, Michael Jackson explores the ways that human beings engage with processes of time, history (both personal and collective), memory, and relationships in dynamic, multiple, and pragmatic ways. -- Robert Desjarlais, Sarah Lawrence College The Varieties of Temporal Experience is a gripping, challenging work that brings a unique voice to questions about how we experience time. To enable the reader to dwell in experiences of time in its variety and to experience firstness, providing gentle nudges but not overwhelming the reader with a heavy apparatus, is no small achievement. -- Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University