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Bungle Book

Some Errors by Which We Live
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The Bungle Book presents a demythology of six salient concepts central to our modern self-understanding, The "suspects" of the self, the machine, and God, as well as the "senses" of home, love, and freedom are subjected to an intense analytical scrutiny that is back-dropped by the work of Gadamer, Heidegger, Lingis, Midgely, and other critical voices. Book-ended by a detailed introduction that asks us to "unexpect the expected" and a conclusion that suggests that we need to stop compulsively making sense of living on in order to become more sensible about its human ambiguities, The Bungle Book will be of interest to any who take seriously the contemporary challenge of a global and interconnected existence.
Introduction: The Usual Suspects The Unusual Is Suspect Unexpect the Expected Chapter 1: The Singular Self 1.1 Narcissus 1.2 Why Is "I" So Important? 1.3 They Are Therefore I Am Chapter 2: The Machine Messiah 2.1 Soulless Solace 2.2 The Mindless 2.3 Killjoy Was Here Chapter 3: Wanted Dead or Alive: God 3.1 The Afterlife of God 3.2 Dead Souls Again 3.3 Fans or Fanatics? Chapter 4: No Place like Home 4.1 Random "Birthrights" 4.2 Cloudy Skies 4.3 Where Is the Heart? Chapter 5: Either in or out of Love 5.1 Fantasy and Phantasm 5.2 Crisis in the Life of a Lover 5.3 Not Yours, Not Mine Chapter 6: "Freedom of Thought," Thought Freedom 6.1 Corporeal Consciousness 6.2 Incorporeal Conscience 6.3 Liberty's Pirouette Conclusion: Non-Sense: Making Sense of Nonsense Stop Making Sense Start Being Sensible Notes References Index
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