A Philosophy of Belonging av James Greenaway

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<p><strong>James Greenaway offers a philosophical guide to understanding, affirming, and valuing the significance of belonging across personal, political, and historical dimensions of existence.</strong></p><p>A sense of belonging is one of the most meaningful experiences of anyone¿s life. Inversely, the discovery that one does not belong can be one of the most upsetting experiences. In <em>A Philosophy of Belonging</em>, Greenaway treats the notion of belonging as an intrinsically philosophical one. After all, belonging raises intense questions of personal self-understanding, identity, mortality, and longing; it confronts interpersonal, sociopolitical, and historical problems; and it probes our relationship with both the knowable world and transcendent mystery. Experiences of alienation, exclusion, and despair become conspicuous only because we are already moved by a primordial desire to belong.</p><p>Greenaway presents a hermeneutical framework that brings the intelligibility of belo