{"product_id":"things-that-bother-me-galen-strawson-9781681372204","title":"Things That Bother Me: Death, Freedom, the Self, Etc.","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn original collection of lauded philosopher Galen Strawson's writings on the self and consciousness, naturalism and pan-psychism.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGalen Strawson might be described as the Montaigne of modern philosophers, endlessly curious, enormously erudite, unafraid of strange, difficult, and provocative propositions, and able to describe them clearly--in other words, he is a true essayist. Strawson also shares with Montaigne a particular fascination with the elastic and elusive nature of the self and of consciousness. Of the essays collected here, \"A Fallacy of Our Age\" (an inspiration for Vendela Vida's novel \u003ci\u003eLet the Northern Lights Erase Your Name\u003c\/i\u003e) takes issue with the commencement-address clich  that life is a story. Strawson questions whether it is desirable or even meaningful to think about life that way. \"The Sense of the Self\" offers an alternative account, in part personal, of how a distinct sense of self is not at all incompatible with a sense of the self as discontinuous, leading Strawson to a position that he sees as in some ways Buddhist. \"Real Naturalism\" argues that a fully naturalist account of consciousness supports a belief in the immanence of consciousness in nature as a whole (also known as panpsychism), while in the final essay Strawson offers a vivid account of coming of age in the 1960s. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing on literature and life as much as on philosophy, this is a book that prompts both argument and wonder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Galen Strawson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681372207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681372204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.70w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2018 pg. 79","brand":"Galen Strawson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43979530404095,"sku":"9781681372204","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_106e2470-801c-452d-94b2-9246f1aab2b1.jpg?v=1683245899","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/things-that-bother-me-galen-strawson-9781681372204","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}