Recovering Place

"Taylor engages—by modeling it in language as well as in earth and water—his readers’ desire for an earthen transcendence."

—Jack Miles, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography

"Mark Taylor is not limited by fields of research and study - he turns over ideas and regards objects and effects from all sides. Taylor's deep reading of philosophy, political theory, and sociology is combined with a unique understanding of art in its most elemental forms. He guides us in ways of seeing, experiencing and receiving. In an increasingly fragmented and solipsistic world Taylor encourages us to regard a sense of "place" as a set of ethical and tangental contexts not limited by material potential for exploitation"

—Liam Gillick, artist

"Taylor is a true renaissance thinker, a synthesizer of high order. His new book is a deep pleasure to read, his beloved New England landscape informs his thinking as he lands one by one on each enlightened stone. Take this book to the nearest garden, sit on a rock and let the language, Taylor’s ideas in language, take you to where you had not planned on going."

—Sophie Cabot Black, poet

"Mark C. Taylor is a brilliant thinker who continually explodes the conventions of scholarship to create works of philosophical art and artistic philosophy. In Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill, he has turned his fine mind and extraordinary eye to the place he knows best: Stone Hill. This series of meditations and photographs is at once a hymn to particularity—to these snow covered berries, this dead squirrel, these yellow apples near a moss covered stone—and a profound rumination on the myriad, proliferating meanings of being alive and mortal and of the earth."

—Siri Hustvedt, author

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