Losing Ourselves
Learning to Live without a Self
$43.78
- Hardcover
224 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2022
Summary
In Losing Ourselves, Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, Garfield shows why it is perfectly natural to think you have a self—and why it actually makes no sense at all and is even dangerous.…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780691220284 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 069122028X |
| Author: | Jay L. Garfield |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press |
| Imprint: | Princeton University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2022 |
| Weight: | 428g |
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Critics Review
“Popular books on the illusion of self tend to be crass and sensationalist, the academic ones dull and turgid. Jay L. Garfield has successfully followed the less trodden middle way. As a result, the promise of losing yourself in a book has never been more literal.”—Julian Baggini, Times Literary Supplement
“Passionate, logical, and thought-provoking.”—David Greder, Reading Religion
“Incisive… .This book makes a valuable contribution.”—David Lorimer, Paradigm Explorer
“This concise volume facilitates an intriguing philosophical dialogue, presenting to its readers an opportunity (as well as a manual of responsibility) to find humans’ right position as a part of the world and not against it.”—Huỳnh Cao Nhựt Quang, Religious Studies Review
Jay L. Garfield
Jay L. Garfield is the Doris Silbert Professor in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy, Logic, and Buddhist Studies at Smith College and a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Divinity School. His many books include Engaging Buddhism.
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