Unselfing offers an account of the ways that global French writers have tried to capture experiences when the ordinary sense of the self as a source of unity, stability, and authority has been radically altered.

Introduction

1. Toward a Cognitive-Phenomenological Approach to the Self

2. What Is Unselfing?

3. Unselfing as Disruption: Self-Knowledge and Pain in Paul Valéry and Charlotte Delbo

4. Unselfing as Mutation: Hallucination and the Remains in Henri Michaux and Yolande Mukagasana

5. Unselfing as Fragmentation: Languages of Alterity in Abdelkebir Khatibi and Hélène Cixous

6. Unselfing as Destruction: De-creation and Inner Experience in Simone Weil and Georges Bataille

Conclusion: The Promise and Peril of Unselfing