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Inwardness : An Outsider's Guide / Jonardon Ganeri.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: No LimitsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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  • 9780231549752
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 126 23
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  • BD438.5 .G358 2021
  • BD438.5 .G358 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preamble -- Explorations in Inwardness -- Libraries Lined with Memories -- Rashōmon’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 Lie -- Postscript -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tradition holds that we are self-illuminating beings casting light onto a world of shadows. And a disquieting set of dissenters has claimed that inwardness is merely an illusion—or, worse, a deceit.Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world’s intellectual cultures, ancient and modern, on how each of us inhabits an inner world. In brief and lively chapters, he ranges across an unexpected assortment of diverse thinkers: Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Chinese, and Western philosophy and literature from the Upaniṣads, Socrates, and Avicenna to Borges, Simone Weil, and Rashōmon. Ganeri examines the various metaphors that have been employed to explain interiority—shadows and mirrors, masks and disguises, rooms and enclosed spaces—as well as the interfaces and boundaries between inner and outer worlds. Written in a cosmopolitan spirit, 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preamble -- Explorations in Inwardness -- Libraries Lined with Memories -- Rashōmon’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 Lie -- Postscript -- Notes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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Where do we look when we look inward? In what sort of space does our inner life take place? Augustine said that to turn inward is to find oneself in a library of memories, while the Indian Buddhist tradition holds that we are self-illuminating beings casting light onto a world of shadows. And a disquieting set of dissenters has claimed that inwardness is merely an illusion—or, worse, a deceit.Jonardon Ganeri explores philosophical reflections from many of the world’s intellectual cultures, ancient and modern, on how each of us inhabits an inner world. In brief and lively chapters, he ranges across an unexpected assortment of diverse thinkers: Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Chinese, and Western philosophy and literature from the Upaniṣads, Socrates, and Avicenna to Borges, Simone Weil, and Rashōmon. Ganeri examines the various metaphors that have been employed to explain interiority—shadows and mirrors, masks and disguises, rooms and enclosed spaces—as well as the interfaces and boundaries between inner and outer worlds. Written in a cosmopolitan spirit, 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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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