The essays in this collection attest to the richness of the double motif in literature and
philosophy. Veering away frompredominantly psychoanalytical readings of narratives which
foreground the double (or doppelganger) which have formed the basis of much scholarly
discussions of this motif the contributions in this volume privilege divergent philosophical
leanings - ranging from Rousseau to Kierkegaard from Christian philosophy to Eastern mysticism
- to elicit the layered nuances and signifiers of this elusive motif. Narratives interrogated
in this collection include the works of Dickens Blanchot Edmund Jabés Orhan Pamuk Chuck
Palahniuk and Don Delillo among others.
