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The Wings of the Mirror: A Philosophical Dialogue on the Self

The Wings of the Mirror: A Philosophical Dialogue on the Self

Van Houte, Cor P. M.

Paperback

Series: Philosophical Dialogues, Book 32

Philosophy

ISBN13: 9798289344144
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 23 2025
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A philosopher and a psychologist meet in a rainy Viennese café to debate the nature of the self. He quotes Kant and Heidegger; she counters with neuroimaging and narrative therapy. They circle the question for nine chapters - meticulously, brilliantly, endlessly.

Then a third voice arrives.

A lawyer. Rational, empirical, unimpressed. He listens once, then dismantles everything they've said - not with rhetoric, but with clarity.

This is not a story. It is not a theory. It is a mirror.

A book-length conversation unfolds - across trauma and thought experiments, through phantom limbs and recursive memory - until the final chapter strips the question bare: not what is the I, but why are we still asking?

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