The philosopher's "I" : autobiography and the search for the self /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2006] |
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| Summary: | This book examines philosophers' autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing. Author J. Lenore Wright focuses her attention on five philosophical autobiographies: Augustine's Confessions, Descartes' Meditations, Rousseau's The Confessions, Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, and Hazel Barnes's The Story I Tell Myself. In the context of first-person narration, she shows how the philosophers in question turn their attention inward and unleash their analytical rigor on themselves.<br> <br> <br> <br> Wright argues that philosophical autobiography makes philosophical analysis necessary and that one cannot unfold without the other. Her distinction between the ontological and rhetorical dimensions of the self creates a rich middle ground in which questions of essence and identity bear upon existence. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 217 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0791469131 079146914X |
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