Preface Part 1 Past Approaches to the Problem of the Self 1 Introduction 1 Problematic Nature of Comparative Philosophy 2 Indian Philosophy on the Nature of Error 3 The Role of Error in Life 4 Selected Western Thinkers and Error 5 Error and Narrative 6 Existence of the Self 7 Preview of Future Chapters 2 Narrative Theorists 1 Ricoeur and Narrative Self 2 Taylor and Narrative Self 3 Dennett and the Narrative Self 4 Anti-narrative Position of Strawson 5 Strawson's Concept of the Self 6 Critical Critique of Thinkers 7 Concluding Comments 3 Postmodernism, Non-self, and Other 1 Levinas and the Face of the Other 2 Derrida and Deconstruction of the Self 3 Deleuze and the Changing Self 4 French Feminist Critique of the Self: Kristeva and Irigaray 5 Non-Self and Buddhism 6 Critical Critique of Postmodernists 7 Concluding Remarks Part 2 A Reconsideration of the Problem of the Self 4 Journey, Place, Play, Escape, and Identity 1 Space and Place 2 Eastern Counterpoints to Tuan's Notion of Place 3 Remarks about the Nature of Play 4 Escapism and Play 5 The Hindu Theistic Mode of Escape 6 The Daoist Mode of Adjusting 7 Human Identity 8 Concluding Remarks 5 The Self and the Nightmare of History 1 DeLillo and Historical Time 2 Mitchell and Time 3 Self, History, and Violence 4 Reactions to the Terror of History 5 The Absurdity of It All 6 Self and Time in the Comparative Mode 7 Time, Error, and the Postmodern Perspective 8 Concluding Comments 6 Self, Other, Body and God 1 The Other 2 The Self and Embodiment 3 Flesh and Sexuality 4 The Existence of the Wholly Other 5 God, Nature, and Ecology 6 Concluding Remarks 7 Opps! 1 Discovering Selfhood 2 Identity Lost 3 Identity Found 4 Impersonal Identity 5 False Identity 6 Death and the Narrative Conclusion 7 Stained Memory 8 The Stain of Error 9 Identity of the Self 10 The Stain of Opps 11 Paradoxical Aspects of the Self 12 Play and Work 13 Concluding Remarks Bibliography Index.