Meeting Place
The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence
$73.26
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
31 January 2014
Summary
In thisremarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociabilityin a globalized future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communicationbut overlook barriers to understanding between strangers as well as the importanceof improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting, offering novel ways ofpresenting the philosophical dimensions of waiting, meeting, and nonmeeting.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780816685394 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0816685398 |
| Author: | Paul Carter |
| Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Imprint: | University of Minnesota Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 31 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 260g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 140mm x 38mm |
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Critics Review
“Paul Carter’s commentaries on cross-cultural encounters have long been philosophically sophisticated and deservedly influential. His new book raises the question of what the value of meeting is, in whose terms. It takes us to the very heart of the histories of encounter and confrontation that have proven so intractable for so long in Australia and elsewhere.” -Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge
“The Meeting Place, Carter’s latest foray into colonial and postcolonial encounters of peoples, epistemologies, and longings, exposes what he foregrounds and reiterates as a ‘meeting place’ of desired belonging and social union. It is an imaginative, referentially capacious, formally demanding, as well as theoretically inventive book.” -Rob Wilson, University of California, Santa Cruz
About The Author
Paul Carter
Paul Carter is professor of design (urbanism) at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of The Road to Botany Bay: An Exploration of Landscape and History (Minnesota, 2010).
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