Autoethnography as a Way of Life

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ID13134389
AuthorsA P Bochner (0000-0003-1284-9186, University of South Florida, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume1
Issue1
Pages81-92
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Autoethnography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2637-5192 • E-ISSN: 2637-5192
PublisherUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/joae.2020.1.1.81
OpenAlexW3007146570
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Research Article| January 07 2020 Autoethnography as a Way of Life: Listening to Tinnitus Teach Arthur P. Bochner Arthur P. Bochner University of South Florida Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of Autoethnography (2020) 1 (1): 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.1.81 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Arthur P. Bochner; Autoethnography as a Way of Life: Listening to Tinnitus Teach. Journal of Autoethnography 7 January 2020; 1 (1): 81–92. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/joae.2020.1.1.81 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of Autoethnography Search Ernest Becker1 concluded his passionate psychotheological synthesis of the denial of death by casting doubt on whether a victory over human limitation could ever be programmed by science. "Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching," he said. "The most that any one of us can seem to do is fashion something—an object or ourselves—and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force."2 I recall sitting at the desk in my home office in Philadelphia meditating on these words the first time I read them in 1973. At the time I had no idea how profoundly transformative this book would be for me, how I would become one of Becker's anguished searchers with a deep appreciation for the forward momentum of time.... You do not currently have access to this content

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