Losing Ourselves: Learning to Live Without a Self

by Jay L. Garfield

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691220573
• ISBN13: 9780691220574
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"