Inwardness

A work of dazzling compression and eclectic research . . . in little more than 100 eloquent pages. -- Kieran Setiya * Los Angeles Review of Books * Not every philosophical survey can be as learned and open-minded, or as attentive to subtle historical parallels and difference as Ganeri's. But books like this show how unexpected and challenging the history of philosophy can be when it chooses to probe and complicate the traditional distinctions between 'Wester' and 'non-Western' philosophy, between literary and scientific inquiry, between metaphorical and literal uses of language. * TLS * A worthy and compelling philosophical topic, one that Ganeri unfolds in insightful and often effective ways through brief encounters with literary and philosophical sources. * Theory and Event * I recommend to all of you this little book. It's refreshing and considering the times, an important distraction. -- Anna Maria Polidori * Articles and more... * Jonardon Ganeris book on inwardness does the most valuable thing a book can do: it gives pleasure and instruction at the same time. It raises numerous fascinating issues concerning inwardness from a variety of perspectives and explores them with delicacy and tact, inviting the reader to further reflection and exploration. -- Christopher Hamilton, author of <i>Middle Age</i> In elegant prose and in an admirable cosmopolitan spirit, Inwardness explores philosophic reflections worldwide, ancient and modern, on interiority, how each of us creates an inner world. -- Stephen Phillips, author of <i>Yoga, Karma, and Rebirth: A Brief History and Philosophy</i>

Jonardon Ganeri is Bimal K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His books include The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness, and the First-Person Stance (2012) and The Lost Age of Reason: Philosophy in Early Modern India, 14501700 CE (2011). He is a fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Infosys Prize in the Humanities.

Preamble Explorations in Inwardness Libraries Lined with Memories Rashmons Effect Self-Illuminating Beings The Face as Interface Hidden Layers Within Troubles with Doubles Dreams of Dreams More Is Than I Myself To Say I Is to Liea Postscript Notes Select Bibliography Index