Format:
1 Online-Ressource (120 pages)
ISBN:
9780226751498
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022675149X
Content:
Frontmatter --Contents --how to catch a minnow --how to swim --how to hold it together --how to give birth --how to milk --how to step over a snake --how to herd --how to riff --how to turn the corner --how to have a one-night stand --how to listen --how to have a breakthrough --how to love --how to elude your captors --how to hope --how to come back to life --how to stay --Acknowledgments --notes
Content:
A beautifully written suite of personal essays on the value of not knowing. Moments of clarity are rare and fleeting; how can we become comfortable outside of them, in the more general condition of uncertainty within which we make our lives? Written by English professor Emily Ogden while her children were small, On Not Knowing forays into this rich, ambivalent space. Each of her sharply observed essays invites the reader to think with her about questions she can't set aside: not knowing how to give birth, to listen, to hold it together, to love. Unapologetically capacious in her range of reference and idiosyncratic in the canon she draws on, Ogden moves nimbly among the registers of experience, from the operation of a breast pump to the art of herding cattle; from one-night stands to the stories of Edgar Allan Poe; from kayaking near a whale to a psychoanalytic meditation on drowning. Committed to the accumulation of knowledge, Ogden nonetheless finds that knowingness for her can be a way of getting stuck, a way of not really living. Rather than the defensiveness of willful ignorance, On Not Knowing celebrates the defenselessness of not knowing yet--possibly of not knowing ever. Ultimately, this book shows how resisting the temptation of knowingness and embracing the position of not knowing becomes a form of love
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226751214
Additional Edition:
ISBN 022675121X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226751351
Additional Edition:
ISBN 022675135X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226751214
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ogden, Emily On not knowing Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022 ISBN 9780226751214
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780226751351
Language:
English
Keywords:
Essay
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