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Many people today are afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught — in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate examines why. In her characteristically lively prose, Margaret Visser investigates what fate means to us, and where the propensity to believe in it and accept it comes from. She takes an ancient metaphor where time is "seen" and spoken of as though it were space and examines how this way of picturing reality can be a useful tool to think with - or, on the other hand, how it may lead people into disastrous misunderstandings. By observing how fatalism expresses itself in one's daily life, in everything from table manners to shopping to sport, the book proposes ways to limit its influence. Beyond Fate provides a timely and provocative perspective on modern life, both personal and social.
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Margaret Visser is the author of the bestselling books: The Geometry of Love, finalist for the Charles Taylor Prize; Much Depends on Dinner, winner of the Glenfiddich Prize for Food Book of the Year; The Rituals of Dinner, winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals' Literary Food Writing Award and the Jane Grigson Award in the US; The Way We Are, a collection of essays, and Beyond Fate, the 2002 CBC Massey Lectures. She divides her time between Toronto, Barcelona, and southwestern France.
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