Title:
The self : a very short introduction
Author:
Publication Date:
2024
Publication Information:
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024.
Physical Description:
xviii, 112 pages ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780198835257
Abstract:
"This VSI is a multidisciplinary approach to central questions about the nature and existence of the self. It engages millennia-old questions about the self as well as modern research to produce new perspectives on both academic questions about the self and the more immediate practical, everyday puzzles about the self that concern us all"--Publisher's description.
Contents:
The metaphysical self -- Becoming someone else -- Being who you are -- Waxing and waning selves -- Divided and distressed selves -- Embodied, social selves.
Language:
English
