On this episode of Thales’ Well I talk to Prof. Felix O’Murchadha who returns to talk about his new book The Formation of The Modern Self (Bloomsbury, 2022). Felix’s book provides a genealogy of the emergence of the self in the early modern period. We had a very wide-ranging discussion moving from ancient accounts of the self to contemporary versions. We discussed Montaigne, Descartes, Spinoza, Hume and Kant. Felix is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Galway. You can find more about Felix here. And here is a link to his University website. You can also find a sample of his writingshere. Here is a link to the book at Bloomsbury, and it is also available in all the usual places. Come study with me on Staffordshire University’s distance learning MA in Continental Philosophy via thislink. Or, join our distance learning MA in Philosophy of Nature, Information and Technology via thislink. Find out more about mehere. January and September intakes available either F/T or P/T.