The Philosopher's "I"
Autobiography and the Search for the Self
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<p>Using works written over the course of 1,500 years, considers philosophers' autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p>
| ISBNs | 9780791469132, 0791480984, 9780791480984 |
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| Language | English |