The philosopher's "I" : autobiography and the search for the self /

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"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wright, J. Lenore, 1972-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, ©2006.
Temas:
Philosophers > Biography > History and criticism.
Autobiography.
Philosophes > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Reference.
Autobiography
Philosophers > Biography
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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