In
Notes to a Future Self
, Scott F. Parker explores the multitudinous nature of the self through a series of four essays structured on the tetra lemma of second-century Indian philosopher Nagarjuna. Parker's aphoristic style allows him room for a direct, flexible, and contradictory mode of thought that suits his elusive subject. What is the self? If questions like this had easy answers, we wouldn't need essays such as these?