In this short book about the philosophy of the poet Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935), Jonardon Ganeri highlights connections with earlier philosophical poets, from Keats to Shakespeare and from Coleridge to Whitman. Ganeri emphasises Pessoa's originality, and his radical break from Christian and Islamic thinking about human flourishing. A key feature of this book is that it highlights affinities with ideas from works of philosophical fiction in classical India, and it examines Pessoa's own engagement with Indian poetry and philosophy.

Jonardon Ganeri is the Bimal. K. Matilal Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. His work draws on a variety of philosophical traditions to construct new positions in the philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His books include The Self: Naturalism, Consciousness and the First-Person Stance (2010); Attention, Not Self (2017); The Concealed Art of the Soul (2012), Virtual Subjects, Fugitive Selves (2020), and Inwardness: An Outsider's Guide (2021). He joined the Fellowship of the British Academy in 2015 and won the Infosys Prize in the Humanities the same year.

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Part I: Poets And Plurals
Chapter 1: Be Plural! A Poet's Creed
Chapter 2: Self-Estrangement
Part II: Varieties of Heteronymous Experience
Chapter 3: Artefact Minds
Chapter 4: A Life Lived in Serial, And In Parallel
Part III: Make-Believe and The Moksopaya
Chapter 5: Reality++
Chapter 6: Names Used Twice Over
Part IV: Pessoa's Imaginary India
Chapter 7: Pessoa in India
Chapter 8: 'One Intellectual Breeze'
Glossary
Bibliography
Index