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Michael Jackson

    27. März 1942 – 30. August 2007

    Michael Joseph Jackson (* 29. August 1958 in Gary, Indiana; † 25. Juni 2009 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien) war ein US-amerikanischer Pop-, Soul-, R&B-, Funk-, Disco- und Rocksänger, Tänzer, Songwriter, Autor, Musik- und Filmproduzent sowie Musikmanager.

    Michael Jackson
    The Genealogical Imagination
    The Essential Michael Jackson
    Happy Hour
    Moonwalk
    Dancing the dream
    • 2024

      Playing the Hand We Are Dealt

      The Counterpoint of Fate and Freewill in Literature and Life

      • 288 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden

      Exploring the interplay of fate and freewill, this book delves into how literature shapes our lives and influences our writing. It posits that fate transcends mere circumstances of birth, advocating for writing as a means to reclaim agency amid life's challenges. By contrasting factuality with fiction, the author presents a radically empirical perspective on human experience, emphasizing the transformative power of literature in navigating our realities.

      Playing the Hand We Are Dealt
    • 2023

      Exploring the multifaceted nature of friendship, Michael Jackson weaves together philosophy, biography, and ethnography. He begins with classical perspectives from Aristotle and Montaigne, then delves into the political and personal dimensions of friendship through the works of Hannah Arendt and the stories of Kuranko storyteller Keti Ferenke Koroma. Jackson reflects on various forms of friendship, including those from childhood and with animals, while addressing the complexities faced by anthropologists in balancing egalitarian ideals with inherent power dynamics in fieldwork.

      Friendship
    • 2022

      Critique of Identity Thinking

      • 216 Seiten
      • 8 Lesestunden

      Michael Jackson's response to our beleaguered age is to ask what forms of speech and action are called for in 'dark times'. He argues that experiences that fall outside the concepts and categories we habitually deploy in rendering life manageable and intelligible have both critical and redemptive power.

      Critique of Identity Thinking
    • 2021

      Most people have a story to tell about a remarkable coincidence that in some instances changed the course of their lives. These uncanny occurrences have been variously interpreted as evidence of divine influence, fate, or the collective unconscious. Less common are explanations that explore the social situations and personal preoccupations of the individuals who place the most weight on coincidences. Drawing on a variety of coincidence stories, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson builds a case for seeing them as allegories of separation and loss—revealing the hope of repairing sundered lives, reconnecting estranged friends, reuniting distant kin, closing the gap between people and their gods, and achieving a sense of emotional and social connectedness with others in a fragmented world.

      Coincidences
    • 2021

      The Genealogical Imagination

      • 320 Seiten
      • 12 Lesestunden
      5,0(2)Abgeben

      Michael Jackson juxtaposes ethnographic and imaginative writing to explore intergenerational trauma and temporality, showing how genealogy becomes a powerful model for understanding our experience of being in the world.

      The Genealogical Imagination
    • 2021

      A blistering original musical about a young artist at war with a host of demons. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, as well as Best Musical and Best Book of a Musical at the Tony Awards.

      A Strange Loop
    • 2020

      Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the author's relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.

      Quandaries of Belonging
    • 2013

      Politics of Storytelling

      • 312 Seiten
      • 11 Lesestunden
      4,1(9)Abgeben

      Hannah Arendt argued that the “political” is best understood as a power relation between private and public realms, and that storytelling is a vital bridge between these realms—a site where individualized passions and shared perspectives are contested and interwoven. Jackson explores and expands Arendt’s ideas through a cross-cultural analysis of storytelling that includes Kuranko stories from Sierra Leone, Aboriginal stories of the stolen generation, stories recounted before the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and stories of refugees, renegades, and war veterans. Focusing on the violent and volatile conditions under which stories are and are not told, and exploring the various ways in which narrative reworkings of reality enable people to symbolically alter subject-object relations, Jackson shows how storytelling may restore existential viability to the intersubjective fields of self and other, self and state, self and situation.

      Politics of Storytelling
    • 2011

      Beyond the Battle

      • 194 Seiten
      • 7 Lesestunden

      Four years ago, author Michael Jackson was diagnosed with and cured of cancer. The treatment and aftermath of something no larger than the size of an egg would change his life forever. Jackson had spent so much time on his own pleasures that he never really focused on what God wanted him to be. Sometimes when we ignore God, He allows things to happen to get our attention. For the author, being diagnosed with cancer was his wake-up call. In Beyond The Battle, Jackson gives you a look at his lifestyle before and after he allowed God to take control of his life. He shares how the Lord used a hopeless situation and turned it into a blessing. When life gives you lemons, God can turn them into eternal peace and joy, but only if one is open to what God is doing to see where He wants to take you. The author hopes to inspire others who are going through difficult situations to trust in the heavenly father and find beauty in their life.

      Beyond the Battle
    • 2011

      Covers the career of a popular music legend from the child star whose infectious lead vocals catapulted the Jackson 5 into the spotlight, to the feeding frenzy that surrounded the announcement of a new tour in Summer 2009. Michael Jackson had charisma. He was a flamboyant, a dazzling performer who owned the stage. His death rang down the curtain on a turbulent life, but did not end his reign as the King of Pop. He lives on through his extraordinary catalogue, which will ensure that his regal status is maintained.

      Michael Jackson