Self and Unself
Description
'Who am I?' Such an easy question; and yet I keep getting it wrong.
An original, wide-ranging and accessible philosophy of all and everything, presenting a synthesis of metaphysics, science, psychology, art, sex, gender, character, culture and history. Neither optimistic nor pessimistic, objective nor subjective, theist nor atheist, Self and Unself expresses the unfathomable paradox at the root of all branches of human experience, providing a new, radical ground of understanding, and solving, en route, all the actually important questions of philosophy; who I am, who you are, why we are here and what on earth is going on.
Everything? Yes, nothing.
Why are philosophers and scientists baffled by reality?
Why must the mediocre man rely on method?|
Why do the realest times of our lives feel unreal?
Why do women value men who 'don't take themselves seriously'?
Why do we find masks so terrifying?
Why doesn't the anxious mind get the joke?
Why do people never suffer for the reasons they think they do?
Why do people cling to absurd beliefs?
Why did we build this god-awful world?
Why am I still discontent?
Why am I still here?
Self and Unself solves these, and many other mysterious whys, by laying bare the what that lies behind them.
It is so much better than you think.
It is so much worse than you think.
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Content
Chapters include;
- Self
- Literalism, Facticity and Causality
- The Literalist and the Solipsist
- The Limits of Slef
- Consciousness and Context
- Attention and isolation
- Subjectivity and objectivity
- The map and the Terrain
- The Unconscious Philosopher
- Meaning and Experience
- Quality
- Metaphor
- Language and the Origin of Metaphor
- Symbol and Cliche
- Mathematics, measurement and prediction
- Fractality
- God
- The Dreamlife of the World
- The Crises and Challenges of Childhood
- Primal and Modern Childhood
- Introversion and Extroversion
- Sadism and Masochism
- Gender
- The Hero and Heroine
- True Love
- Personal and impersonal love
- Self-mortification in Love
- Sex and Love-making
- Personality and character
- Empathy and Sympathy
- Physical beauty and ugliness
- The Mask
- Existential Threats to Self
- Criticism, Loss, Impediment and Pain
- Fear, Desire and Freedom
- Liking and Disliking
- Heaven and Hell
- Egoic Lack of Discernment
- Feeling and Emotion
- Pain and suffering
- The Problem of Evil
- Wanting and Worry
- The origin of Addiction
- Defilement, Desecration and Violation
- Belief
- Ignorance and Annihilation
- Excuse and Accusation
- Boredom
- Culture and Society
- Maintenance of the Social Self
- Law and Legitimation
- The Social Mask
- Self and Society
- Conformism
- Groupthink
- Art and Craft
- Genius
- Ritual and Festival
- Subjectivism and Objectivism in Art
- Pornography
- Nature
- Myth
- The Evolving Self
- Animal Consciousness
- Primal Man
- Tools
- The Fall
- Fallen Man
- Domestication and Civilisation
- Atheism and Theism
- The Medieval World
- The Birth of the Modern World
- The Death of Religion
- Classicism and Romanticism
- Objective Management
- The War on the Vernacular
- Subjective Management and Therapy
- The Meaningless World
- Virtual Man
- The Death of Culture
- Endgame
- No Escape
- Death
- The Nightmare of the World
- The End of the World
- Death
- Resurrection
- Revolution
- Self-Mastery
- Mere-Being
- Killing God
- Facing it, Facing it
- Laughter
