Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) (CBC Massey Lecture) by Margaret Visser - 2005-04-05

House of Anansi Press, 2005. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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House of Anansi Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: House of Anansi Pr, 2002. First. . Soft cover. Fine. pp.169 with index. clean tight copy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2002. Paperback. pp. 169. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. CBC Massey Lecture Series.

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Pub Group West. Paper Back. Good. Margaret Visser borrows the ancient metaphor of the line--not a line of poetry, but a physical, figurative line drawn on a piece of paper--to frame her discussion of fatalism. The line spatializes time, encourages us to see events as inevitable and fated, and in doing so, expresses time in terms of space. In J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> saga, a line is turned upon itself to make a ring which curses whoever owns it. The One Ring is associated with fate as an imprisonment: chains that can only be broken by undertaking a perilous journey to destroy it, thereby releasing the world from the power of the Ring of Doom. Visser wishes to likewise warn us and help us identify how a similar fatalism expresses itself in our daily lives, threatening our ability to choose by snaring us in dangerous metaphors such as ''Image is everything'' and luring us with the notion that a person's worth is only measurable by what he or she is in… Read More

House of Anansi, 2002. Trade paperback. Good.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada: House of Anansi Pr, 2005. 169 pages includes index, bibliography and notes. Part of the CBC Massey Lectures series. Investigates what fate means to us, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Detect the signs by which fatalism begins to manifest itself, and consider how to limit its influence over us. Soft cover is bright and clean, no creases. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarekd.. Trade Paperback. V. Good.