THE FACE I CANNOT FULLY SEE: A Philosophy of Love, Ethics, and the People We Never Fully Know - Softcover

Mahendrakar, Shubham

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798187609413

Verlag: Independently published, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

You will never fully know another person. Not your closest friend, not your partner, not the parent who raised you.
The Face I Cannot Fully See starts from that uncomfortable fact and asks what actually follows from it. The book's central image is a fogged window, lit from within — you can see a shape moving behind it, but never quite the whole picture. That's not a flaw in how we love people. It's the actual condition of loving anyone at all.
Across fourteen chapters, this book moves from the philosophical (why no amount of data could ever tell you what it's like to be someone else) into the intensely personal: what makes a friendship survive decades of silence while another dissolves the moment convenience runs out, why family asks us to stay loyal to people whose inner world we never chose and may never fully understand, and what trust actually is once you realize it was never a rational calculation of risk — it's the decision to stop demanding proof that can never arrive.
It doesn't stop at the comfortable parts of intimacy. There are real, clear-eyed chapters on betrayal, on forgiving reasons you'll never completely understand, on the specific grief of losing someone before you'd finished learning who they were, and on what happens when we stop seeing people and start sorting them into categories instead.
This is a book for anyone who has ever loved someone and felt, at the same time, the strange vertigo of realizing you'll never see all the way in — and wanted to understand why that doesn't make love smaller, just more honest.
What you'll find inside:
A clear-eyed philosophy of love, friendship, family, and trust — grounded in real psychology, not just abstraction
Honest chapters on betrayal, grief, and forgiveness, not just the comfortable parts of intimacy
A close look at how modern life — categorization, algorithms, screens — makes this old problem sharper than ever

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Independently published
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798187609413
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 109
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