Beyond Fate (Massey Lectures) (CBC Massey Lecture) by Margaret Visser ISBN 13: 9780887846793

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: House of Anansi Pr, 2002. First. . Soft cover. Fine. pp.169 with index. clean tight copy Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 2002. Paperback. pp. 169. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; very good+. CBC Massey Lecture Series.

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Pub Group West. Paper Back. Good. Margaret Visser borrows the ancient metaphor of the line--not a line of poetry, but a physical, figurative line drawn on a piece of paper--to frame her discussion of fatalism. The line spatializes time, encourages us to see events as inevitable and fated, and in doing so, expresses time in terms of space. In J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> saga, a line is turned upon itself to make a ring which curses whoever owns it. The One Ring is associated with fate as an imprisonment: chains that can only be broken by undertaking a perilous journey to destroy it, thereby releasing the world from the power of the Ring of Doom. Visser wishes to likewise warn us and help us identify how a similar fatalism expresses itself in our daily lives, threatening our ability to choose by snaring us in dangerous metaphors such as ''Image is everything'' and luring us with the notion that a person's worth is only measurable by what he or she is in… Read More

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: House of Anansi Pr, 2005. 169 pages includes index, bibliography and notes. Part of the CBC Massey Lectures series. Investigates what fate means to us, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Detect the signs by which fatalism begins to manifest itself, and consider how to limit its influence over us. Soft cover is bright and clean, no creases. No former owner's name. Text is clean and unmarekd.. Trade Paperback. V. Good.

House of Anansi Press, 2005-04-05. Paperback. New.

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Toronto: Anansi, 2002. Cover is clean, bright, a small crease to bottom front corner. No former owner's name. Text is clean, tight and unmarke. Paperback. Good.

Pub Group West, June 2005. Paper Back. New. Margaret Visser borrows the ancient metaphor of the line--not a line of poetry, but a physical, figurative line drawn on a piece of paper--to frame her discussion of fatalism. The line spatializes time, encourages us to see events as inevitable and fated, and in doing so, expresses time in terms of space. In J.R.R. Tolkien's <i>Lord of the Rings</i> saga, a line is turned upon itself to make a ring which curses whoever owns it. The One Ring is associated with fate as an imprisonment: chains that can only be broken by undertaking a perilous journey to destroy it, thereby releasing the world from the power of the Ring of Doom. Visser wishes to likewise warn us and help us identify how a similar fatalism expresses itself in our daily lives, threatening our ability to choose by snaring us in dangerous metaphors such as ''Image is everything'' and luring us with the notion that a person's worth is only measurable by what he… Read More

Toronto: Anansi, 2002. 169 pages. Square tight copy with minor wear on covers. "People today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught- in a word fatalistic. Beyond fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why.". 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good - Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

House of Anansi Press. Used - Very Good.

House of Anansi Press. Used - Good.

House of Anansi Press, 2005-04-05. Paperback. Used:Good.