Will and Attention
Formats & Editions
'Mesmerizing' Claire Vaye Watkins, author of I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness
'Staggering' Keiran Goddard, author of I See Buildings Fall Like Lightning
'Profound' Chloe Benjamin, author of Under Story
In her late thirties, Meghan O'Gieblyn found herself in crisis. Earlier that year, she had relapsed back into an alcohol addiction she had kicked in her twenties. The year before that, she had been briefly drawn back to the faith she had renounced decades earlier, through a friendship she developed with a Catholic priest.
Both of these events happened in secret, hidden from everyone close to her, and both felt like acts of regression - a return to paths she had walked before. This fundamentally unsettled her belief that she was a unified self with transparent motives. How is a person to avoid those irrational mistakes that they continually return to, despite knowing they are harmful? Can we truly master our will, or are we always divided selves? And can we ever satisfy the deep yearning our compulsions speak to?
Praise for Will and Attention
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Will and Attention is a feat of uncommon honesty. O'Gieblyn's intellectual rigor and spiritual bravery land her in the firmament of the finest thinkers to take up these two vast, essential, and entwined subjects. A bracing, beautiful book that reads like a fortifying talk with an intimate companion. Mesmerizing, invigorating, and profound.Praise for God, Human, Animal, Machine - -O'Gieblyn is a brilliant and humble philosopherA whip-smart stylist - KirkusA fascinating exploration of our enchantment with technologyO'Gieblyn has a knack for keeping dense philosophical ideas accessible, and there's plenty to ponder in her answers to enduring questions about how humans make meaning ... Razor-sharp, this timely investigation piques - Publishers Weekly
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