On care, chocolate cake, and challenging with love
摘要
This essay responds to the contributions that make up this forum, which in turn represent the authors’ engagement with my recent book, The Self, and Other Stories: Being, Knowing, Writing (Rowman and Littlefield, 2023). I attempt to answer some of the queries that arise for my interlocutors and to elaborate on some of the themes that I touch on in the book itself. I am not sure I am very successful in either endeavour, because the queries are many and I feel far removed from the book at this stage, but here we are.