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Meeting Place

The Human Encounter and the Challenge of Coexistence
By Paul Carter
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In Meeting Place, Paul Carter examines the dynamics of sociability in a globalised world. He challenges common assumptions about communication, highlighting the barriers to understanding between strangers and emphasising the role of improvisation in overcoming these obstacles. The book thoughtfully explores the philosophical aspects of waiting, meeting, and nonmeeting, offering fresh perspectives on encounters in diverse cultural contexts.
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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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Book Details

INFORMATION

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

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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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