Writing the Self Contributor(s): Heehs, Peter (Author) |
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ISBN: 1441168281 ISBN-13: 9781441168283 Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC OUR PRICE: $47.47 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2013 |
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BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General |
Dewey: 809.933 |
LCCN: 2012035414 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.90 lbs) 288 pages |
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Publisher Description: The self has a history. In the West, the idea of the soul entered Christianity with the Church Fathers, notably Augustine. During the Renaissance the idea of the individual attained preeminence, as in the works of Montaigne. In the seventeenth century, philosophers such as Descartes formulated notions of selfhood that did not require a divine foundation; in the next century, Hume grew skeptical of the self's very existence. Ideas of the self have changed markedly since the Romantic period and most scholars today regard it as at best a mental construct. |
Contributor Bio(s): Heehs, Peter: - Peter Heehs is an independent scholar based in India. He has written or edited eleven books and published more than fifty articles. His publications include The Lives of Sri Aurobindo (Columbia University Press, 2008), Indian Religions: A Historical Reader of Spiritual Expression and Experience (New York University Press, 2002), Nationalism, Terrorism, Communalism (Oxford University Press, 1998, reprinted 2000, 2005, 2006) and The Bomb in Bengal: The Rise of Revolutionary Terrorism in India 1900-1910 (Oxford University Press, 1993). His books have been translated into Russian, Dutch, French and Japanese. |