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The Weight of Things That Are Also True: Book II - The Failure of Identity
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 1 2026
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Book II: The Failure of Identity
What happens after you dismantle truth?
You dismantle yourself.
In The Failure of Identity, the second book in The Weight of Things That Are Also True series, identity is not healed, strengthened, or simplified. It is examined until it fractures. The singular self dissolves into layers. Agency becomes questionable. Meaning loosens. Contradiction refuses to resolve.
If Book I confronted the instability of truth, Book II confronts the instability of the one who believes it.
Across fourteen chapters, this volume explores:
Multiplicity within the self
The inheritance of identity through conditioning
The illusion of a singular chooser
The fear of disappearing when unseen
Agency as orchestration rather than control
Meaning as enacted alignment rather than destiny
Paradox as structure rather than error
This is not a self-help book. It does not offer affirmations or simplified integration. It does not promise that you will find yourself.
Instead, it asks a more difficult question:
What if identity is not something to discover, but something to architect?
Through philosophical inquiry and lived examination, The Failure of Identity reconstructs stability without certainty. It does not end in resolution. It ends in inhabitation.
Multiplicity remains. Contradiction remains. Conditioning remains.
But collapse is no longer required.
For readers drawn to existential philosophy, paradox, and psychologically rigorous introspection, this book continues a series that refuses easy answers while remaining grounded in lived experience.
Identity does not crystallize here.
It becomes livable.
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