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Meeting Place
The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence
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This book is well suited to readers interested in philosophy, cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and the challenges of communication and sociability in a globalised world.
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In this remarkable and often dazzling book, Paul Carter explores the conditions for sociability in a globalised future. He argues that we make many assumptions about communication but overlook barriers to understanding between strangers, as well as the importance of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles to meeting.
Carter offers novel ways of presenting the philosophical dimensions of waiting, meeting, and non-meeting in Meeting Place.
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Nicholas Thomas of the University of Cambridge praises Carter's philosophical insight into cross-cultural encounters and the enduring complexities of meetings. Rob Wilson from the University of California, Santa Cruz describes the work as imaginative and theoretically inventive, noting its deep engagement with colonial and postcolonial encounters and notions of belonging.
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ISBN: 9780816685394
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 October 2013
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Illustration: 10
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 272
About the Author
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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