Self, Other, and the Weight of Desire

by Niklas Toivakainen

This is a book about the moral-existential nature of, and the desire inscribed in, the deadlocks generated by our attempts to ground and exhaustively explain the concerns that provoke philosophical reflection.

While the book argues that these deadlocks are symptomatic of an impossibility internal to the very enterprise of grounding and explanation, it does not, however, declare any substantial groundlessness. Rather, the book shows that the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031402758
• ISBN13: 9783031402753
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"