Losing My Home/Losing My Mind: A Work of Philosophical Fiction
Ebook
Nathan Feldman, a fortyish Jewish professor of philosophy, returns to his condo complex after a Saturday morning walk only to find that his name is no longer on his mailbox. The key to his condo isn't in his pocket, and a resident across the hall, a good friend, refuses to buzz him in because she claims not to know him. As it turns out, no one recognizes him. He cannot find his wallet or cell phone. He suddenly has no way to prove who he is. He walks to his university and finds a different name on what he thought was his office door. Although he can provide detailed information about their lives to individuals whom he thought were friends and acquaintances, they treat him as a complete stranger. The life he remembers, including his name, seems to be nothing more than fiction. He suddenly finds himself homeless and penniless. Is he suffering from a strange form of amnesia characterized by false memories? His nightmare is only beginning. What he ultimately discovers about his true identity will completely unnerve him.
“David B. Myers’s philosophical novel Losing My Home/Losing My Mind is an engaging thought experiment in personal identity written as a neuro sci-fi thriller. With surprising twists and turns in the protagonist’s riveting story, Myers pulls you in and simultaneously challenges you with profound questions and insights regarding how memory plots a self and its consequences—a remarkable achievement.”
—Per Brask, retired professor of theatre and film, The University of Winnipeg
“David Myers’s haunting novel begins when a philosophy professor returns from a walk to discover that he has no home, job, or friends who remember him. This science fiction tale in the vein of Philip K. Dick’s Flow My Tears, The Policeman Said, and philosophical reflection that echoes Camus’s The Stranger, keeps the reader guessing about what it means to be and act like a just moral person. The answer will surprise you.”
—Roy Hammerling, professor emeritus of religion, Concordia College
“A harrowing Dantean odyssey through stimulating and informative domains (technological, legalistic, socio-political, and spiritual) entrapping an individual in a morass of questions that touch on the nature of personhood and human purposes. Along the way, the reader is drawn into a skilled and clear exposition of the choices presented by advancing technology and its subsequent challenges to our extant moral and spiritual foundations.”
—Dieter Berninger, professor emeritus of history, Minnesota State University Moorhead
- Title: Losing My Home/Losing My Mind: A Work of Philosophical Fiction
- Author: David B. Myers
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385208500, 9798385208487, 9798385208494
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385208500
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-20T19:19:25Z
David B. Myers is professor of philosophy, emeritus, at Minnesota State University Moorhead. He is president of the Fargo-Moorhead Interfaith Center. He is author of Marx and Nietzsche (1986); New Soviet Thinking and U.S. Nuclear Policy (1990); and Did God Die on the Way to Houston? A Queer Tale (2020). He is also author of numerous articles in professional philosophy journals.