Coincidences - Synchronicity, Verisimilitude, and Storytelling

"In Coincidences, Michael Jackson has produced an impassioned and wonderfully written essay that weaves strands of narrative and philosophical reflection into a powerful and seamless tapestry that underscores a central theme of human being—its irrepressible ambiguity." ––Paul Stoller, author of Yaya's Story: The Quest for Well-Being in the World

"Michael Jackson elegantly combines analysis, memoir, and literary sensibilities to create a vibrant and exciting book about coincidence and its ramifications in human life. An extraordinary achievement that displays the full range of Jackson's flair as a thinker and a writer."––Hans Lucht, Senior Researcher, Danish Institute for International Studies

List of contents

Preface

Time to Time
A World in a Grain of Sand
Lost and Found
Synchronicity and Suffering
The Other Portion
Correspondences
Ships That Pass in the Night
Chance Meeting
Coincidence and Theodicy
Amazing Grace
About Time
March 15, 2019

Person to Person
Confluences
Love
It So Happened That . . .
Contrived Coincidences
The Double 
Chinese Boxes
Autumn Leaves
Magdalene of the Black Rose
All the Birds of the Air 

Place to Place
The Relativity of Our Viewpoints
As Time Goes By
Pieces of Music
Strangers on a Train
The Lost Child
In the Nature of Things
Il Ritorno in Patria 
Affective Coincidences
Coincidence and Fate 
The Question of Verisimilitude

Coda
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

About the author

Michael Jackson is an anthropologist, poet, and fiction writer. He teaches at Harvard Divinity School, and his most recent books include Critique of Identity Thinking, The Paper Nautilus, and The Work of Art.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Jackson
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2021
• EAN: 9780520379961
• ISBN: 978-0-520-37996-1
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Pre and early history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Anthropology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Philosophy of religion, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism