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Self, Other, and the Weight of Desire by Niklas Toivakainen is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.
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<p>This is a book about the moral-existential nature of, and the desire inscribed in, the deadlocks generated by our attempts to ground and exhaustively explain the concerns that provoke philosophical reflection.</p>While the book argues that these deadlocks are symptomatic of an impossibility internal to the very enterprise of grounding and explanation, it does not, however, declare any substantial groundlessness. Rather, the book shows that the choice between secure ground and groundlessness,
Who reads Self, Other, and the Weight of Desire?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Niklas Toivakainen
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9783031402760
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Philosophy, Mind & Body, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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