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Being in Flux
A Post-Anthropocentric Ontology of the Self
Rein Raud
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Names: Raud, Rein, author.
Title: Being in flux : a post-anthropocentric ontology of the self / Rein Raud.
Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “A cutting-edge contribution to the philosophical debate about how to conceptualize reality”-- Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021000209 (print) | LCCN 2021000210 (ebook) | ISBN 9781509549504 | ISBN 9781509549511 (pb) | ISBN 9781509549528 (epub) | ISBN 9781509549740 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Ontology. | Self (Philosophy)
Classification: LCC BD331 .R26 2021 (print) | LCC BD331 (ebook) | DDC 111--dc23
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This book started out as a few explanatory sentences at the beginning of an article, as it seemed necessary for me to clarify my ontological views. Sentences developed into paragraphs, then into passages and chapters. This is the result: the article remains to be written.
My sincere thanks go to Michael Krämer, Vanina Leschziner, Graham Parkes, Chiara Robbiano and Fernando Vidal, who read and commented on previous versions of the book or sections of it – the argument has benefited so much from your input! A deep bow is also due to the anonymous reviewer of the book for Polity, who found only praise for it, despite acknowledging that they disagree with me on all philosophical counts – I am very glad to know that such breadth of mind is still to be found in this world.
I am also truly grateful to John Thompson for hosting me as a visiting scholar in Cambridge in the spring of 2019, as quite a few among the central ideas of the book came to maturation during that period, and to everyone at Polity for their usual excellence and dedication in helping this book to see the light of day. Special thanks are due to Sarah Dancy for her sensitive and precise copy-editing.
This project was financed by the research grant PUT1365 of the Estonian Research Agency as well as the School of Humanities, Tallinn University.
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