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Things That Bother Me by Galen Strawson (Paperback, 2018)

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Each essay illuminates the nuances of human experience, touching on issues such as consciousness, free will, and the nature of personal identity. Strawson combines personal anecdotes with deep philosophical inquiry, inviting readers to reflect on their own lives and the things that unsettle them.

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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; he is a true essayist, in other words. With Montaigne Strawson also shares 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 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 whole (also known as pan-psychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. Drawing on literature and life as much philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.

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PublisherT.H.E. New York Review of Books, INC International Concepts

ISBN-139781681372204

eBay Product ID (ePID)25046707981

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Book TitleThings That Bother Me

AuthorGalen Strawson

FormatPaperback

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2018

GenreBiographies & True Stories

Number of Pages160 Pages

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Item Height215mm

Item Width146mm

Item Weight305g

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Title_AuthorGalen Strawson

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

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by nich_45005
21 Jul, 2024
A vigorous and engaging collection
Strawson writes in a vigorous, lively style and is very good at arguing for often unpopular views. But occasionally there is, to my mind, an element of brusque impatience with ideas he thinks silly which gets in the way of a full appreciation of how and why they come to be proposed.
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by pHyTWbLJQz6@Deleted
16 May, 2018
thought-provoking
a book which engenders reflection, and with concentration, one is rewarded by its content
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