Jonardon Ganeri

Broschiertes Buch

Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves

Fernando Pessoa and His Philosophy

Beschreibung

This book explores the philosophical themes of self and subjectivity in the work of the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa, who is best known for the uncategorizable collection of fragmentary writings, in various personae, that were posthumously published as The Book of Disquiet in 1982.

Autor

Jonardon Ganeri is a philosopher whose work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and epistemology. He is the author of Fernando Pessoa: Imagination and the Self; Attention, Not Self; The Concealed Art of the Soul; and The Lost Age of Reason; all published by Oxford University Press. Ganeri joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015 and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities the same year, the only philosopher to do so. He delivered the 2024 John Locke Lectures. Ganeri is currently Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 249g
• ISBN-13: 9780198965091
• ISBN-10: 0198965095
• Artikelnr.: 73664283