Sass describes solipsism as a state of mind in which 'the whole of reality, including the external world and other persons, is [regarded as] but a representation appearing to a single individual self'.
quoting Louis Sass, The Paradoxes of Delusion, 8
Sartre offers the example of looking through a keyhole: 'I am alone and on the level of a non-thetic self-consciousness [...]'
Being and Nothingness p.283
But what is the 'I', then, if it is not an immanent structure of consciousness itself?
Starting to see this word everywhere. Pretty useful tbh
The fourth influence Gidden lists, is 'the prevalence of mediated experience'.
quoting Anthony Giddens in Modernity and Self-Identity (listing his factors of heightened contemporary reflexivity)
We can find this contributive factor and its disturbing existential impact illustrated in countless places in the works of Wallace, Eggers and Foer, often as a leitmotiv, as a quest for meaning.
referring to modernity-imposed conditions of doubt and a general inability to rely on authority
