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Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc by Galen Strawson (English)
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- Condition
- ISBN-13
- 9781681372204
- Type
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9781681372204
- Book Title
- Things That Bother Me : Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Item Length
- 8.4 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
- Topic
- Personal Memoirs, History & Surveys / Modern, Essays
- Item Weight
- 12.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Number of Pages
- 240 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1681372207
ISBN-13
9781681372204
eBay Product ID (ePID)
240393874
Product Key Features
Book Title
Things That Bother Me : Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc
Number of Pages
240 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Personal Memoirs, History & Surveys / Modern, Essays
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Collections
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-052996
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Galen Strawson is one of the cleverest men alive." --Ian McEwan "I found Things That Bother Me captivating, not only for its philosophical insightfulness but also for its wit and pathos. Strawson, by not hiding behind the faade of the impersonal point of view, manages to draw a reader close, even while discussing some rather abstruse topics. It is a rare and wonderful philosopher who can make almost anybody be bothered by the things that bother him." --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away "Galen Strawson has a marvelous gift for untangling even the most complex lines in philosophical thinking and laying them straight. He writes with humor, clarity and always from a recognizably human place. Even the most complex and controversial areas in modern philosophy come into the light when you are in his benign company.... He opens windows and finds light-switches like no other philosopher writing today." --Stephen Fry
Dewey Decimal
126
Table Of Content
PROVISIONAL TOC The Unstoried Life: On Self and Consciousness Galen Strawson 1. The Sense of the Self 2. Luck Swallows Everything 3. A Fallacy of Our Age 4. A Hundred Years of Consciousness 5. Real Naturalism 6. I Have No Future 7. The Unstoried Life 8. Untitled Autobiographical Piece
Synopsis
An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism. Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly-in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, "A Fallacy of Our Age" (an inspiration for Vendela Vida's novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name ) takes issue with the commencement-address cliche that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. "The Sense of the Self" offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. "Real Naturalism" argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. Drawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder., An original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism. Galen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly--in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, "A Fallacy of Our Age" (an inspiration for Vendela Vida's novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name ) takes issue with the commencement-address clich that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. "The Sense of the Self" offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. "Real Naturalism" argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. Drawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.
LC Classification Number
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