“Creating a Human World is a a valuable and entirely unique contribution that develops an account of why it is that we are tempted to deny our own finitude, clinging to selfish and ultimately destructive illusions of power, and how we might radically open ourselves to a more authentic engagement with the finite world. It is a timely and insightful work, which provides a cogent diagnosis of our spiritual predicament and makes an urgent plea for the only kind of remedy that might help us to live well as contingent beings. Its synthesis of these three thinkers is not duplicated by any other work.” —Rick A. Furtak, Colorado College

 

Rick A. Furtak

"If making room for the Other is a watchword of contemporary phenomenology, Carrere’s Creating a Human World is a reminder of the concrete dimensions of the task. With Kierkegaard and Heidegger as his guides, Carrere faces the baffling reversals of Freud’s theory of instincts and traces an eye-opening reading of the enigma which dominates Beyond the Pleasure Principle--that of a death instinct which would shield us from our mortality. This is a compelling presentation of the thought of Kierkegaard, Freud, and Heidegger, one which does justice to their strenuous, and at time courageous, pursuit of our human reality."

Vanessa Rumble, Boston College