Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self

by Jonardon Ganeri

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 "pluralise ourselves;" that is to say, to live, simultaneously and in sequence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197636683
• ISBN13: 9780197636688
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.4"