The Stain of Errors on the Self

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Part 1 Past Approaches to the Problem of the Self
	Chapter 1 Introduction
		1 Problematic Nature of Comparative Philosophy
		2 Indian Philosophy on the Nature of Error
		3 The Role of Error in Life
		4 Selected Western Thinkers and Error
		5 Error and Narrative
		6 Existence of the Self
		7 Preview of Future Chapters
	Chapter 2 Narrative Theorists
		1 Ricoeur and Narrative Self
		2 Taylor and Narrative Self
		3 Dennett and the Narrative Self
		4 Anti-narrative Position of Strawson
		5 Strawson’s Concept of the Self
		6 Critical Critique of Thinkers
		7 Concluding Comments
	Chapter 3 Postmodernism, Non-self, and Other
		1 Levinas and the Face of the Other
		2 Derrida and Deconstruction of the Self
		3 Deleuze and the Changing Self
		4 French Feminist Critique of the Self: Kristeva and Irigaray
		5 Non-self and Buddhism
		6 Critical Critique of Postmodernists
		7 Concluding Remarks
Part 2 A Reconsideration of the Problem of the Self
	Chapter 4 Journey, Place, Play, Escape, and Identity
		1 Space and Place
		2 Eastern Counterpoints to Tuan’s Notion of Place
		3 Remarks about the Nature of Play
		4 Escapism and Play
		5 The Hindu Theistic Mode of Escape
		6 The Daoist Mode of Adjusting
		7 Human Identity
		8 Concluding Remarks
	Chapter 5 The Self and the Nightmare of History
		1 DeLillo and Historical Time
		2 Mitchell and Time
		3 Self, History, and Violence
		4 Reactions to the Terror of History
		5 The Absurdity of It All
		6 Self and Time in the Comparative Mode
		7 Time, Error, and the Postmodern Perspective
		8 Concluding Comments
	Chapter 6 Self, Other, Body and God
		1 The Other
		2 The Self and Embodiment
		3 Flesh and Sexuality
		4 The Existence of the Wholly Other
		5 God, Nature, and Ecology
		6 Concluding Remarks
	Chapter 7 Oops!
		1 Discovering Selfhood
		2 Identity Lost
		3 Identity Found
		4 Impersonal Identity
		5 False Identity
		6 Death and the Narrative Conclusion
		7 Stained Memory
		8 The Stain of Error
		9 Identity of the Self
		10 The Stain of Oops
		11 Paradoxical Aspects of the Self
		12 Play and Work
		13 Concluding Remarks
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