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This excellent book deals with the very important theme of the genesis and diverse developments of the modern sense of self. It is very helpful in situating the topic in relation to earlier views of freedom and grace to be found in Augustinian and Pelagian orientations. Its treatments of Montaigne, pairs of modern thinkers, Descartes and Pascal, Hume and Spinoza, and then of the singular contribution of Kant, are exemplary. It is full of fresh and vigorous insights. * William Desmond, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium [endorser's preference is the David Cook Chair title if only one can be used] *

This excellent book deals with the very important theme of the genesis and diverse developments of the modern sense of self. It is very helpful in situating the topic in relation to earlier views of freedom and grace to be found in Augustinian and Pelagian orientations. Its treatments of Montaigne, pairs of modern thinkers, Descartes and Pascal, Hume and Spinoza, and then of the singular contribution of Kant, are exemplary. It is full of fresh and vigorous insights. * William Desmond, David Cook Chair in Philosophy, Villanova University, USA Thomas A.F. Kelly Visiting Chair in Philosophy, Maynooth University, Ireland Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium * Formation of the Modern Self retells the story of philosophical modernity as transforming, through crises of reason, faith, and world, the ancient philosophical strivings for truth, goodness, and happiness. It offers a strikingly original and rigorous phenomenological examination of the emergence of the modern self as not only an epistemic construct but as invigorated by the ethically-charged task of its own becoming and salvation. * Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei, Professor and Kurrelmeyer Chair in German and Professor in Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University, USA *

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Felix Ó Murchadha is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland. Previous books and articles include The Time of Revolution (Bloomsbury, 2013), A Phenomenology of Christian Life (2013), and ‘The Passionate Self and the Religiosity of Phenomena’ in The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (2019).

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