UG’s first open textbook published: The Tragedy of the Self

University of Groningen Press (UGP) has published the UG’s first open textbook The Tragedy of the Self: Lectures on Global Hermeneutics by Andrea Sangiacomo, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen.

About the book

The Tragedy of the Self takes the form of a journey through a series of lectures on global hermeneutics and explores fundamental questions around the notion and sense of self, offering a roadmap of possible theoretical avenues for conceiving it.

Guiding the reader through a 14-episode narrative, Sangiacomo aims to introduce to higher public education the competences necessary for critical reflection on how selfhood and personal identity have been constructed in different cultures and studied in different academic fields.

Open access

Available both on the UG Pressbooks platform and in the UGP catalogue, this textbook has been published open access thanks to the financial support of the UG Open Science programme.

About textbooks

Open textbooks are a free educational resource that can be accessed, shared and reused within and beyond the UG classroom.

About Pressbooks

Pressbooks is a platform for authoring and publishing open access textbooks. UGP has an institutional license for using Pressbooks and supports UG teachers with their open textbook publishing projects.