| Description |
1 online resource (x, 217 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index. |
| Contents |
Writing the self -- Groundwork for a study of autobiography -- Writing the examined life -- The rationale for autobiographical writing -- Autobiography as confession -- Features of autobiographical writing -- Conclusions -- Bifurcating the self -- Self-ascription and self-description -- The inner self -- The outer self -- Conclusions -- Masking the self -- Deception and concealment -- Knowledge and truth in autobiography -- Self-deception -- Self-concealment -- Self-masking -- Conclusions -- Tranforming the self -- The dialectic of philosophical autobiography -- Interpretation and understanding -- Gracia on interpretation -- Gadamer on truth in interpretation -- Nietzsche and the subversion of the self. |
| 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."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Philosophers -- Biography -- History and criticism.
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Philosophers -- Biography. |
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Autobiography.
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Autobiography. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wright, J. Lenore, 1972- Philosopher's "I". Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2006 0791469131 079146914X (DLC) 2005036302 (OCoLC)63107948 |
| ISBN |
9781429457989 (electronic book) |
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1429457988 (electronic book) |
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0791469131 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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079146914X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780791469132 |
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9780791469149 |
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9780791480984 |
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0791480984 |
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