Beyond Fate
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Beyond Fate

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
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Beyond Fate

About this book

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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Index

Abbott, Edwin Abbott, 150 n. 18
accidents, 59–60, 63, 89
addiction, 2, 81, 82–83, 84, 141–142
Aeschylus, 59
The Oresteia, 54–55, 101
agoraphobia, 95
anangké, 36–37, 63, 100, 109, 128, 150 n. 19
animals, 5–6, 85, 119–120, 132
as metaphors, 2–3, 102–103
Antigone, 115
area, areas, 13–15, 20, 34, 95, 98, 101–102, 105, 106, 107, 133, 134
see also land, moira
Aristotle, 153 n. 3
astrology, 11
até, 55, 97–98, 99
atoms, 65, 67, 86, 118
attention, 127, 139, 143, 144
audience, 32, 39, 41, 43, 46, 51–52, 56, 97–98, 108–113
authenticity, 51
author, 32–33, 115, 130
balance, weighing in the, 40, 149 n.8
ball bearings, 24, 61
beard, see hair
Beckett, Samuel, 14
beheading, 99
billiard balls, 66, 77
binding, 14, 20, 22, 32, 37, 53, 94–95, 101
See also boundaries, chains, ropes
birth, 12–13
blindness, 118
of fate and chance, 86, 89
blood, 53, 101
See also family
blueprint, 11, 119
body, human, 5–6, 24, 51, 100, 123, 126, 144
body of people, 24
book of fate, 21, 119
boredom, 79, 80–81, 140–143
boundary, boundaries, 13, 14–15, 18, 19, 20, 25, 41, 52, 53, 54, 89, 94–96, 99–102, 107, 111...

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Openers
  3. Epigraph
  4. I Drawing a Line
  5. II Fate and the Furies
  6. III Free Fall
  7. IV Transgression
  8. V Beyond Fate
  9. Notes
  10. Bibliography
  11. Acknowledgements
  12. Index
  13. About the Author
  14. About the Massey Lectures Series
  15. The CBC Massey Lectures Series List
  16. About the Publisher