212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
212 Pages
by
Routledge
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This title was first published in 2001. Explaining and defending a Heideggarian account of the self and our knowledge of the world, this book addresses the fundamental issues of selfhood and the elemental question of what it means to be human. Mitchell critically examines theories of the self derived from two distinct schools of thought: Descartes, Hume, Kant, Sartre and Stirner representing a... Read more
Theories of the self; Max Stirner - the tyranny of pure theory; R.D. Laing - All together now; Descartes, Locke and Hume - self and world; Kant - Let sleeping dogma awake!; Sartre - Goldilocks uncovered; Heidegger - An everyday story of beings-in-the-world; Heidegger - Goldilocks divined; Conclusion - How to argue with an egoist; Bibliography.
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Derek Robert Mitchell
