Dr. Erfani’s book on Sartre and Ricœur is a welcome re-reading, together, of two relatively neglected thinkers, with a view of appropriating what is most valuable in each for understanding the challenges posed by globalization to the newly ‘fragile’ subjects of an increasingly complex, globalized world. It will appeal to those individuals who are nevertheless interested in creatively rescuing a ... Read moresense of autonomy and selfhood—an aesthetic path to an autonomous self—from oblivion at a time when heteronomy appears to be increasingly the rule in various domains. With insight and humour, Erfani demonstrates that these thinkers’ conceptions of imagination and creativity, together with a sensitivity for the constitutive role of narrative for individual subjects, can revitalize our own floundering attempts to rise above the restrictions of the nation state while still clinging to the protection it supposedly affords one from global, multi-national corporate power.
Bert Olivier, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University Show Less