The Riddle of the Self

First thus (English translation).  266, [6]pp.  Green cloth-covered boards with black and red lettering front and spine.  8vo.  Cloth very slightly pushed in at corners and spine tips.  Hint of shadowing to page block edges.  Some compression of pages. In its original glossy, illustrated dust wrapper, gently shelf worn and a little bumped on extreme edges. A contemporary review of this book said "What Mikhailov is trying to do...is to explain in philosophical terms why it is important and what it really means to say that a thinking, creative, purposeful individual is a social product...such an understanding is not the solution to the 'riddle of the self; but it is an approach which, by elucidating sound philosophical principles, may help science avoid persistent errors.  Much of the book is devoted to tracing the recurrent efforts to solve the problem of human consciousness, from early Greek philosophers...all the way to Bertrand Russell.". Progress Publishers is a Moscow-based Soviet, now Russian, publisher established in 1936.  This is one of its scarcer volumes.