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"Stephen Mulhall presents a series of multiply interrelated essays which together make up an original study of selfhood (subjectivity or personal identity). He explores a variety of articulations (in philosophy, psychoanalysis, and the arts) of the idea that selfhood is best con…
"The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the Renaissance the idea of the individual attained preeminence, as in the works of Montaigne. In the seventeenth century, philosophers such as Desc…
"In this book, Anthony Rudd defends a series of closely related claims about the nature of the self. He argues that the self is a being that constitutes or shapes itself, and that it can only do this non-arbitrarily if it is guided by a sense of the good. This ethical or evaluat…
The oneness hypothesis: beyond the boundary of self
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Does the self exist? If so, what is its nature? How long do selves last? Galen Strawson draws on literature and psychology as well as philosophy to discuss various ways we experience having or being a self. He argues that it is legitimate to say that there is such a thing as the…
Aṣṭāvakragītā (The song of the self supreme)
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"Though Heidegger's Being and time is often cited as one of the most important philosophical works of the last hundred years, its Division two has received relatively little attention. This outstanding collection corrects that, examining some of the central themes of Division tw…