This article arises from a general concern with the question of an ontology of self. I am interested in how the self is to be most appropriately understood in the contemporary world, and with how this understanding, and our pre-thematic experience of self, determine the possibilities available in terms of fundamental modes of engagement with the world.
God's back in fashion in the West. Or, at least, something of a similar order. There's much talk of a New Age, of the end of the millennium, of 'Otherness', or of the need to bring forth an 'inner self as the essence of human life. In a myriad of forms and a multitude of ways people are expressing dissatisfaction with the secular status quo, and a sense of loss of purpose and meaning in…
