Inwardness

In elegant prose and in an admirable cosmopolitan spirit, Inwardness explores philosophic reflections worldwide, ancient and modern, on interiority, how each of us creates an inner world.

Autorentext

Jonardon Ganeri is Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His books include The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance (2012) and The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India, 1450-1700 CE (2011). He is a fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the Humanities.

Klappentext

Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world's intellectual cultures, ancient and modern, on how each of us creates an inner world. This book is a thought-provoking consideration of the value-or peril-of turning one's gaze inward for all readers who have sought to map the geography of the mind.

Inhalt

Preamble
Explorations in Inwardness
Libraries Lined with Memories
Rash mon's Effect
Self-Illuminating Beings
The Face as Interface
Hidden Layers Within
Troubles with Doubles
Dreams of Dreams
More "I"s Than "I Myself"
To Say "I" Is to Liea
Postscript
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index