生活在时间里，在不可预见和不可逆转之间，意味着什么？在《时间体验的多样性》一书中，迈克尔·杰克逊通过对我们对时间性的文化表征与我们对时间体验的令人困惑的多样性之间的差距的多方面考虑，展示了时间现象学对于民族志、哲学和历史的重要性。
作为文学人类学的一种形式，杰克逊以主观的方式探索时间性。书的第一部分讲述了约翰·约瑟夫·帕韦尔卡的故事，他在1910年越狱并随后失踪成为新西兰悬而未决的大谜团之一，讨论了它揭示的流行故事、隐藏的历史和媒体叙事在构建民族和道德身份寓言中的相互作用。在第二本书中，杰克逊回顾了在新西兰群岛上的旅行，谈到了个人故事与社会和历史事件交织在一起的方式。在这本开创性的书中，杰克逊将哲学、历史和人种学并列在一起，试图公正地对待各种各样的时间体验，同时探索因生活时间的复杂性而产生的伦理和生存困境。
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The Varieties of Temporal Experience: Travels in Philosophical, Historical, and Ethnographic Time
What does it mean to live in time, between the unforeseeable and the irreversible? In The Varieties of Temporal Experience, Michael Jackson demonstrates the significance of a phenomenology of time for ethnography, philosophy, and history through a multifaceted consideration of the gap between our cultural representations of temporality and the bewildering multiplicity of our experience of being-in-time.
Jackson explores temporality in a subjective mode as a form of literary anthropology. The first part of the book tells the story of John Joseph Pawelka, whose 1910 escape from prison and subsequent disappearance became one of New Zealand’s great unsolved mysteries, discussing what it reveals about the interplay of popular stories, hidden histories, and media narratives in constructing allegories of national and moral identity. In the second, Jackson reflects on journeys up and down the islands of New Zealand, touching on the ways that personal stories are interwoven with social and historical events. Throughout this groundbreaking book, Jackson juxtaposes philosophy, history, and ethnography in an attempt to do justice to the extraordinary variety of temporal experience, at the same time exploring the ethical and existential quandaries that arise from the complexity of lived time.
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