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The philosopher's "I" : autobiography and the search for the self / J. Lenore Wright.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wright, J. Lenore, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophers--Biography--History and criticism.
- Philosophers.
- Autobiography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (229 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Using works written over the course of 1,500 years, considers philosophers' autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing.
- 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
- Masking the self
- Deception and concealment
- Knowledge and truth in autobiography
- Self-deception
- Self-concealment
- Self-masking
- 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.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791480984
- 0791480984
- 9781429457989
- 1429457988
- OCLC:
- 85857951
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