How To Be Multiple: The Philosophy of Twins

A personal essay collection exploring the role twins play in illuminating personal identity, love, freedom and objectification. What makes someone themself rather than someone else? Can a single person be spread across two bodies, or two people be contained in one? What do perfect and pathological love look like? Can any of us really act freely, if our genes determine so much about us? At what point does wonder at another person turn creepy? Drawing on philosophy, literature, popular culture, and personal experience, with illustrations by my twin, Julia. (Bloomsbury USA, 2023)

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