The Collective Self: Reflection and Religion in Byzantium and the Middle East

Reveals a conception of selfhood in Byzantine and Middle—Eastern sources that is fundamentally collective rather than merely individual, challenging Western—centric narratives of the modern self and enriching contemporary discussions on communal ways of being

What if the story we tell ourselves about of the modern self is incomplete? The Collective Self chal­lenges narrow histories of Western selfhood that limit our understanding of both past and present.

Drawing on mirror imagery as a unifyi...