{"product_id":"things-that-bother-me-death-freedom-the-self-etc-1681372207","title":"Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1681372207\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Strawson, Galen\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn 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 Vidas novel Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name) takes issue with the commencement-address cliché 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52092717465888,"sku":"NEW1681372207","price":21.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/things-that-bother-me-death-freedom-the-self-etc-1681372207","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}