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The Philosopher's "I"

The Philosopher's "I"

By Wright, J. Lenore

Published by State University of New York Press

English 230 pages 2012
Estimated reading time: 4 h 13 min
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Using works written over the course of 1,500 years, considers philosophers' autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing. 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. 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.

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