Absence Of Mind by Marilynne Robinson
The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self
A series of essays arguing that contemporary scientific and popular narratives often reduce human consciousness to simplistic biological explanations, marginalizing interiority, introspection, and the depth of subjective experience. It critiques reductive claims from neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, revisits the history of ideas, and calls for a more capacious understanding of mind that honors mystery, moral imagination, and religious thought while urging humility about what science can and cannot say about the self.
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- Published
- 2010
- Nationality
- American
- Length
- Short
- Pages
- 176-192
- Original Language
- English
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