Philosopher's "I", The : Autobiography and the Search for the Self /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wright, J. Lenore, 1972-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2006.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Autobiography.
Philosophers > Biography > History and criticism.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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