Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds by Jackson, Michael

Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds

The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential...
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Author: Michael Jackson
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Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds by Jackson, Michael

Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds

$84.80

Dilemmas: Beyond Binaries and Double Binds

$84.80
Author: Michael Jackson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

The ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions

Dilemmas explores some of the most pressing existential problems of our times, from climate change, political conflict, and social injustice, to balancing one's own needs against those of others. Pushing back against the tendency to think of dilemmas as clear-cut binary choices, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson shows us some of the ingenious ways that dilemmas are addressed in non-Western thought and oral traditions, as well as in Western philosophy.

Drawing on examples from myth, literature, and his extensive ethnographic fieldwork in West Africa and Aboriginal Australia, each of thirteen chapters examines a particular dilemma and how it is experienced, circumvented, or reimagined. From the struggles of the Aboriginal people of Central Australia for land rights to Walter Benjamin's harrowing journey across the Pyrenees as he fled German-occupied France in 1940; from the story of a suburban family in Aotearoa New Zealand adjusting to life in a commune to the dilemmas of migrants from the Global South trying to reconcile their search for a better life with their longing for home--Jackson interweaves philosophical reflections, insights from his anthropological fieldwork, and individual life stories.

In striking a balance between our contradictory impulses to be both apart from and together with others, Jackson makes a case against identitarian essentialism, showing us how the oppositional thinking through which we often frame our contemporary dilemmas may be overcome.

Author: Michael Jackson
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 11/12/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.46d
ISBN: 9781512826708

About the Author
Michael Jackson is Senior Research Fellow in World Religions at Harvard Divinity School. He is author of Friendship, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.

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