Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self

Author:   Jonardon Ganeri (Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
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9780197636688


Pages:   176
Publication Date:   29 October 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) is the quintessential philosophical outsider. Affiliated to no institution, and associated with no traditional school, in his prose fiction and poetry, Pessoa invented a new philosophy of the human subject, arguing that imagination is key to human flourishing and human self-enrichment. Each of us, he claimed, can use our powers of imagination to

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Author:   Jonardon Ganeri (Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Toronto)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 14.80cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 21.30cm
Weight:   0.336kg
ISBN:  

9780197636688


ISBN 10:   0197636683
Pages:   176
Publication Date:   29 October 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Poets And Plurals Chapter 1: Be Plural! A Poet's Creed Chapter 2: Self-Estrangement Part II: Varieties of Heteronymous Experience Chapter 3: Artefact Minds Chapter 4: A Life Lived in Serial, And In Parallel Part III: Make-Believe and The Moksopaya Chapter 5: Reality++ Chapter 6: Names Used Twice Over Part IV: Pessoa's Imaginary India Chapter 7: Pessoa in India Chapter 8: 'One Intellectual Breeze' Glossary Bibliography Index

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Jonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His books include The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness and the First-Person Stance (2010); Attention, Not Self (2017); The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012), Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves (2020), and Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide (2021). He joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015 and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities the same year.

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