Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living by Taylor, Mark C - 2014

Columbia University Press , pp. 288 . Papeback. Used.

Paperback / softback. New. 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, but only to face a new threat: surgery for cancer. "These experiences have changed me in ways I am still struggling to understand," Taylor writes in this absorbing memoir. "After the past year, I am persuaded that I have done enough fieldwork to write a book that combines philosophical and theological reflection with autobiographical narrative. Writing is not only possible but actually seems necessary." 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… Read More

Columbia Univ Pr, 2014. Paperback. New. 288 pages. 8.00x6.00x1.00 inches.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Columbia University Press, 1893. Softcover. New.

Columbia University Press, 1893. Softcover. New.