The Philosopher's I
Subtitle: Autobiography And the Search for the Self
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: October 5, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 217
ISBN-13: 9780791469149
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography; Western philosophy; Movements - Existentialism; General; Philosophy; Biography / Autobiography; History and criticism; Reference; Philosophers; History & Surveys - General; Autobiography; Biography
Description: "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.