Marilynne RobinsonFiction · Essays·b. 1943
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- English
Synopsis
Four lectures delivered at Yale for the Terry Foundation, collected as a single argument against the scientific reductionism that Robinson sees afflicting modern accounts of the self. She takes on writers who dismiss religion in the name of science, considers William James's account of the richness of human consciousness, and examines the intellectual world that shaped Freud's model of mind and civilization.
