Feeling Faint Affect and Consciousness in the Renaissance |
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| Author:
| Pertile, Giulio J. |
| Series title: | Rethinking the Early Modern Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8101-3918-3 |
| Publication Date: | Feb 2019 |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person experience. What would it mean to be conscious without being a first person--to be conscious in the absence of a self?
Feeling Faint is a book about human consciousness in its most basic sense: the awareness, at any given moment, that we live and feel. Such awareness, it argues, is distinct from the categories of selfhood to which it is often assimilated, and can only be uncovered at the margins of first-person experience. What would it mean to be conscious without being a first person--to be conscious in the absence of a self?