Books by Charles Larmore

Ranging broadly through English, French, and German philosophy, literature, and art, Charles Larmore untangles the strands of our Romantic inheritance that, he argues, ought to figure in the fabric of our own self-understanding. The book focuses on imagination, community, irony and authenticity.

What is the nature of the fundamental relation we have to ourselves that makes each of us a self? To answer this question, the author develops a systematic theory of the self, challenging the widespread view that the self's defining relation to itself is to have an immediate knowledge of its own thoughts.