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Addresses ‘what it means to be human’ in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought.

Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Part I
  • I. The Problematic of the Self Is the Self a Modern Invention?
  • The Opacity of the Self
  • Degrees and Dimensions of Selfhood
  • First-person vs. Third-person Perspective
  • Descriptive vs. Normative Approaches
  • A Multi-dimensional Model
  • Overcoming the Terminological Fray
  • Summary
  • II. The View from and beyond the 'I' The Paradox of Self-knowledge
  • Non-reflective Self-knowledge
  • Self-knowledge as Abiding Presence
  • The Varieties of Non-reflective Self-knowledge
  • The Kantian Dilemma
  • Summary
  • III. Self-knowledge and the Levels of Consciousness
  • The Humean Challenge and the Referentiality of the “I”
  • Onto-phenomenological Structure of Consciousness
  • What is It Like to Be a Self?
  • Unity of Self and Consciousness
  • Summary
  • Part II
  • IV. Self, Body, and Consciousness
  • Consciousness in Neuroscience
  • Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness
  • The Center of the Self: Neurons or Consciousness?
  • The Nerve Impulse and the Structure of Consciousness
  • Graeco-Islamic-Indian Conversations
  • Deciphering the Self through the Subtle Bodies
  • Emotion and Subjectivity
  • Summary
  • V. Sculpting the Self
  • Philosophy, Spirituality, and Self-knowledge
  • Self-cultivation and Human Flourishing
  • Self-perfection and the Ideal Self
  • Meditation and Self-transparency
  • Self-transcendence and Transformation
  • Self, Freedom, Being-toward-beyond-death
  • Summary
  • VI. Consummation: 'I or I and I
  • Bibliography
  • Index Locorum
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects

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      Publisher: The University of Michigan Press
      Publication Date: 30/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9780472132621, 978-0472132621
      ISBN10: 0472132628
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      Islamic and Arab philosophy Social groups: religious groups and communities

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Addresses ‘what it means to be human’ in a secular, post-Enlightenment world by exploring notions of self and subjectivity in Islamic and non-Islamic philosophical and mystical thought.

      Table of Contents
      • Preface and Acknowledgements
      • Introduction
      • Part I
      • I. The Problematic of the Self Is the Self a Modern Invention?
      • The Opacity of the Self
      • Degrees and Dimensions of Selfhood
      • First-person vs. Third-person Perspective
      • Descriptive vs. Normative Approaches
      • A Multi-dimensional Model
      • Overcoming the Terminological Fray
      • Summary
      • II. The View from and beyond the 'I' The Paradox of Self-knowledge
      • Non-reflective Self-knowledge
      • Self-knowledge as Abiding Presence
      • The Varieties of Non-reflective Self-knowledge
      • The Kantian Dilemma
      • Summary
      • III. Self-knowledge and the Levels of Consciousness
      • The Humean Challenge and the Referentiality of the “I”
      • Onto-phenomenological Structure of Consciousness
      • What is It Like to Be a Self?
      • Unity of Self and Consciousness
      • Summary
      • Part II
      • IV. Self, Body, and Consciousness
      • Consciousness in Neuroscience
      • Neurobiological Theories of Consciousness
      • The Center of the Self: Neurons or Consciousness?
      • The Nerve Impulse and the Structure of Consciousness
      • Graeco-Islamic-Indian Conversations
      • Deciphering the Self through the Subtle Bodies
      • Emotion and Subjectivity
      • Summary
      • V. Sculpting the Self
      • Philosophy, Spirituality, and Self-knowledge
      • Self-cultivation and Human Flourishing
      • Self-perfection and the Ideal Self
      • Meditation and Self-transparency
      • Self-transcendence and Transformation
      • Self, Freedom, Being-toward-beyond-death
      • Summary
      • VI. Consummation: 'I or I and I
      • Bibliography
      • Index Locorum
      • Index of Names
      • Index of Subjects

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