Effacing the Self

Effacing the SelfArgues that self and selflessness are aspects of the same insoluble problem at the very heart of modernity. In spirituality and mysticism, many seek a counterbalance to the strong emphasis on the self that modernity demands of us: We desire a fixed self on the one hand and are fascinated by selflessness on the other. But is our fascination with selflessness not a ruse to make that self of ours even stronger? And is that self critical question not the

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personal injury

Sexuality is an analogous domain of formative intersubjective experience

Think of your mother

we are faced with the dilemma of either shoring up the current political and legal order-through ever more authoritarian measures-or radically transforming it

rage within the religious right

Explores the work of Maurice Kenny

The correspondence was immediately seen as a crucial discussion of the significance of the new science

avoiding unhealthy jealousy

Based on fieldwork in Israel