Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self

by Jay L. Garfield

Book Overview

Why you don't have a self--and why that's a good thing In Losing Ourselves , Jay Garfield, a leading expert on Buddhist philosophy, offers a brief and radically clear account of an idea that at first might seem frightening but that promises to liberate us and improve our lives, our relationships, and the world. Drawing on Indian and East Asian Buddhism, Daoism, Western philosophy, and cognitive neuroscience, Garfield shows why it is perfectly natural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069122028X
• ISBN13: 9780691220284
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.6"