From the outset Garfield is clear that the denial of the reality of selves is not the claim that we do not exist. “That would be madness”, he reassuringly concedes. Persons are real, selves are not, and he insists the difference is not a “trivial lexical point”.
Review of Losing Ourselves: Learning to live without a self by Jay L. Garfield for the TLS (paywall)/. Supporters can read the full unedited version here.