The philosopher's "I" autobiography and the search for the self

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wright, J. Lenore, 1972- (-)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Albany, NY : State University of New York Press c2006.
Subjects:
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Table of 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
  • Conclusions
  • Masking the self
  • Deception and concealment
  • Knowledge and truth in autobiography
  • Self-deception
  • Self-concealment
  • Self-masking
  • Conclusions
  • 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.