an object. I know that by which objects are known. Here I assert that the self is that in and through which they are present. Its mode of presence is their modes of coming to presence. As such, it hides itself behind them. Presenting itself as their place, it itself seems placeless. Its content is given by its objects and their modes of appearing. This implies that to know it, I would have to know what could fill it, what objects I could possibly know. For this, however, I would have to know the knowable world itself. Is the self then a world? It does not seem so. Embodied, it is subject to various accidents, including injury, decay, and death. Psychologically, it also has its vulnerabilities, its habits, its peculiarities. An entity among entities, a being within the world, how can it claim to be a world?" /> What is a self? - Mensch James | sdvig press