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Self - Ancient and Modern Insights About Individuality, Life and Death (Hardcover)
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Self - Ancient and Modern Insights About Individuality, Life and Death (Hardcover)
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Over the centuries, the idea of the self has both fascinated and
confounded philosophers. From the ancient Greeks, who problematized
issues of identity and self-awareness, to Locke and Hume, who
popularized minimalist views of the self, to the efforts of
postmodernists in our time to decenter the human subject
altogether, the idea that there is something called a self has
always been in steady decline. But for Richard Sorabji, one of our
most celebrated living intellectuals, this negation of the self is
dispiriting. In Self, he sets out to recover the rich variety of
positive accounts of the self from Antiquity right up to the
present, while offering his own inspiring view of what precisely
the self might be. Drawing on Eastern religion, classical
antiquity, and Western philosophy, Sorabji proceeds to tackle a
number of thematic debates that have preoccupied philosophers over
the ages, including the concept of the self, its sameness and
mutability, the idea of the resurrection of the body and spirit,
and the fear of death. According to Sorabji, the self is not an
undetectable soul or ego, but an embodied individual whose
existence is plain to see. It is also neither a linguistic creation
nor a psychological fiction, but something that owns both a
consciousness and a body. Ultimately, Sorabji argues, the demise of
a positive idea of the self stems from much older and more
pervasive problems of identity than we realize. Through an astute
reading of this tradition, he helps us come to terms with our
uneasiness about the subject in an account that will be at the
forefront of philosophical debates foryears to come.
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Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2013 |
First published: |
October 2006 |
Authors: |
Richard Sorabji
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 30mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
320 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-226-76825-0 |
Categories: |
Books >
Humanities >
Philosophy >
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Books >
Philosophy >
General
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LSN: |
0-226-76825-2 |
Barcode: |
9780226768250 |
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