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Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill
Mark C. Taylor
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Description for Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill
Hardback. Series: Religion, Culture and Public Life. Num Pages: 176 pages, 156 color photographs. BIC Classification: HRLK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 265 x 208 x 19. Weight in Grams: 928.
Mark C. Taylor recounts a poignant love affair not with a person but with a place that, paradoxically, cannot be easily localized. For many years, Taylor has lived in the Berkshire Mountains, where he writes and creates land art and sculpture. In a world of mobile screens and virtual realities, where speed is the measure of success and place is disappearing, his work slows down thought and brings life back to earth to give readers time to ponder the importance of place before it slips away. Taylor extends reflection beyond the page and returns with new insights about what ... Read more
Mark C. Taylor recounts a poignant love affair not with a person but with a place that, paradoxically, cannot be easily localized. For many years, Taylor has lived in the Berkshire Mountains, where he writes and creates land art and sculpture. In a world of mobile screens and virtual realities, where speed is the measure of success and place is disappearing, his work slows down thought and brings life back to earth to give readers time to ponder the importance of place before it slips away. Taylor extends reflection beyond the page and returns with new insights about what ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Series
Religion, Culture and Public Life
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231164986
SKU
V9780231164986
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About Mark C. Taylor
Mark C. Taylor is professor of religion at Columbia University. His Columbia University Press books include Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers, Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo (2013); Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy (2012); and Field Notes from Elsewhere: Reflections on Dying and Living (2009).
Reviews for Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill
Taylor engages-by modeling it in language as well as in earth and water-his readers' desire for an earthen transcendence.
Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography Taylor is not limited by fields of research and study-he turns over ideas and regards objects and effects from all sides. His deep reading of philosophy, political theory, and sociology is ... Read more
Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography Taylor is not limited by fields of research and study-he turns over ideas and regards objects and effects from all sides. His deep reading of philosophy, political theory, and sociology is ... Read more