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

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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 ph ...more
Paperback , 217 pages
Published October 5th 2006 by State University of New York Press (first published October 1st 2006)
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