my mind on books

Here is a list of books on the self, published in 2007 or coming soon, the start of a cumulative list to be placed in the sidebar.

Berkeley’s Philosophy of Spirit: Consciousness, Ontology and the Elusive Subject by Talia Mae Bettcher (London ; New York : Continuum, 2007).

The Concealed Art of the Soul: Theories of the Self and Practices of Truth in Indian Ethics and Epistemology by Jonardon Ganeri (Oxford : Clarendon, 2007)

The First Person Singular by Alphonso Lingis (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2007).

I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas R Hofstadter (New York : Basic Books, 2007)

The Messy Self ed. by Jennifer Rosner (Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, 2007). [“an edited volume that challenges the idea and the ideal of a coherent, harmonious self”]

On Willing Selves: Neoliberal Politics and the Challenge of Neuroscience ed. by Sabine Maasen; Barbara Sutter (Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) forthcoming Oct. 2.

Personal Identity, the Self and Ethics by Ferdinand Santos; Santiago Sia (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007) forthcoming Oct 2.

Otherness in Question: Labyrinths of the Self ed. by Livia Mathias Simão; Jaan Valsiner (Charlotte, N.C. : Information Age Pub., 2007).

The Politics of Our Selves: Power, Autonomy, and Gender in Contemporary Critical Theory (New Directions in Critical Theory) by Amy Allen (New York : Columbia University Press, 2007) forthcoming Nov 9

Plotinus on Self: The Philosophy of the ‘We’ by Pauliina Remes (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007). forthcoming Sept. 30

Self-Consciousness by Sebastian Rödl (Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007).

The Situated Self by Jenann Ismael (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)

What Are We?: A Study in Personal Ontology by Eric T. Olson (New York : Oxford University Press, 2007)