In Self-Identity and Powerlessness, Alice Koubova proposes a conception of human existence that does not essentially depend on the definition of self-identity. The author shows that the philosophical stress on human identity fails to grasp essential aspects of human existence. By emphasizing the moments of Dasein's powerlessness in Heidegger's fundamental ontology, she develops -- in her analysis of various philosophers, literary examples, and social psychology --an original phenomenology of alternation of existence and affair. How necessary is identity for thinking? Are we...