Autobiography as philosophy
Subtitle: the philosophical uses of self-presentation
By: edited by Thomas Mathien and D.G. Wright.
Contributors: Mathien, Thomas.; Wright, D. G., 1969-
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 277
Subjects: Philosophers -- Biography -- History and criticism; Autobiography; Philosophical literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Philosophers' autobiographies / Thomas Mathien; title: The confessions of Saint Augustine : accessory to grace / Samantha Thompson; title: Who is Peter Abelard? / Calvin G. Normore; title: Philosophy without heroism : Montaigne and the vanity of autobiography / D.G. Wright; title: Exile and philosophy : Descartes / André Gombay; title: Scrissela da filosofo : the life of Giambattista Vico written by himself / Domenico Pietropaolo; title: Hume's "life" and the virtues of the dying / Donald Ainslie; title: Portraying nature : Rousseau's reveries as philosophy and art / Eve Grace; title: John Henry Newman and autobiographical philosophy / Jay Newman; title: Mill's autobiography / Fred Wilson; title: The subject of Nietzsche's Ecce homo / D.G. Wright; title: R.G. Collingwood : philosophy as autobiography / Lionel Rubinoff; title: Is Bertrand Russell a logical fiction? / John G. Slater.