{"product_id":"dilemmas-beyond-binaries-and-double-binds-hardback-9781512826715","title":"Dilemmas; Beyond Binaries and Double Binds (Hardback) 9781512826715","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDilemmas\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBeyond Binaries and Double Binds\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Jackson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781512826715\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 November 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm, 0.372 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe ingenious ways dilemmas are addressed in non-Western traditions\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDilemmas\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e Introductory Remarks and Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Between Fact and Fiction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. African Dilemma Tales\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Forgiving and Forgetting\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Quandaries of Wellbeing \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Impossible Choices\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. \"I Am Here, I Am There\": Historical Wrongs and Redressive Rites\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7. Between Exile and Death\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8. Giving In or Going On\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9. Being of Two Minds\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10. Between Belonging and Being Out of Place\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11. Staying Put or Moving Away\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12. Science and Religion\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13. Between One and One Another\u003cbr\u003e Coda\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52610736947480,"sku":"9781512826715","price":71.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/dilemmas-beyond-binaries-and-double-binds-hardback-9781512826715","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}