In a social and cultural analysis, the author explores the world of masculinity and maleness to address some of men's most common concerns, including a fear of intimacy and the loss of their patriarchal place in society, arguing that an emotionally rewarding inner life holds the…
This text explores the meaning and consequences of nationalism, with particular focus on France. It investigates nationalism, national identities, and the various ways in which these concepts are accepted, adapted, discarded, or internally disputed across ideological divides.
National identities in France
Although a focus on oneself has clear adaptive functions - such as physical preservation, decision making, planning, and self-regulation - this pervasive egoic mindset has psychological, interpersonal, and societal costs. Many advocate for a "hypo-egoic" way of being, a psycholo…
Although a focus on oneself has clear adaptive functions - such as physical preservation, decision making, planning, and self-regulation - this pervasive egoic mindset has psychological, interpersonal, and societal costs. Many advocate for a "hypo-egoic" way of being, a psycholo…
What is a self? What is the relation between phenomenal consciousness and the self? What are we talking about when we speak of conscious experience, the self, an inner mental world? In order to answer these questions the author reconsiders the «turn to the self» in contemporary …
What is a self? What is the relation between phenomenal consciousness and the self? What are we talking about when we speak of conscious experience, the self, an inner mental world? In order to answer these questions the author reconsiders the "turn to the self" in contemporary …