Rethinking Interiority

Interiority is approached here from aspects and senses that have so far gone largely unexplored. The book considers the idea of an inner world and inner life, the question of personal identity, the phenomenon of auto-affection, and the social and political dimensions of interiority, along with the ethical possibilities it opens up.

Scholars and philosophers of international standing look back at figures in the history of phenomenology and also draw on recent work in psychology and the neurosciences. Their inquiries reach beneath the surface of interiority and ask how it connects with and gives shape to external reality.

Positions from Western and Eastern philosophy sit side by side throughout, so the discussion becomes a cross-cultural exchange that readers are welcome to join.