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Beyond Fate Paperback - 2002

by Margaret Visser


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In spite of modern ideals and achievements in the area of freedom and choice, 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.

This timely and important book investigates what fate means, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. Visser takes an ancient metaphor -- ubiquitous, influential, perhaps unavoidable -- where time is "seen" and spoken of as though it were space; she examines how this way of picturing reality can be a useful tool to think with -- or, on the other hand, may lead us into disastrous misunderstandings. There are ways out. But first, by observing how fatalism manifests itself in our daily lives, in everything from table manners and shopping to sport, we understand our profound attachment to fate, so that we can consider its role in our lives and our cultures.

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  • Title Beyond Fate
  • Author Margaret Visser
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher House of Anansi Press, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • Date 2002-10-23
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780887846793 / 0887846793
  • Weight 0.41 lbs (0.19 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.08 x 5.1 x 0.48 in (20.52 x 12.95 x 1.22 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Fate and fatalism
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003386612
  • Dewey Decimal Code 149.8

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  • Quill & Quire, 12/01/2002, Page 20
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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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