Philosophy and Life Writing (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: LeMahieu, D. L.; Cowley, Christopher

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the complex issues surrounding philosophy and life writing. This book was originally published as a special issue of Life Writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429663208
• Artikelnr.: 59564470

Autorenporträt

D. L. LeMahieu is the Hotchkiss Presidential Professor of History at Lake Forest College, USA. His work includes The Mind of William Paley: A Philosopher and his Age (1976) and A Culture for Democracy: Mass Communication and the Cultivated Mind (1988). Christopher Cowley is Associate Professor at the School of Philosophy at University College Dublin, Ireland. His work includes Moral Responsibility (author, 2013), Supererogation (editor, 2015), and The Philosophy of Autobiography (editor, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Philosophy and Life Writing 1. Self-management and
Narrativity in Teresa of Avila's Work 2. 'S'éclairer en dedans': Rousseau
and the Autobiographical Construction of Truth 3. The Incubus of Necessity
in Mill's Autobiography 4. Wilhelm Dilthey's Views on Autobiography 5.
Walter Benjamin's Berliner Kindheit um 1900: Longing, Enchantment and the
Material Subject 6. 'Forgive Me Reader, for I Have Sinned': Disponibilité
and Confession in the Works of Albert Camus 7. Life Writing and Philosophy:
Bryan Magee and the Subjectivities of the Examined Life 8. Heterobiography:
A Bakhtinian Perspective on Autobiographical Writing 9. Narrative and the
Phenomenology of Personal Identity in Merleau-Ponty 10. Narrating Trauma:
Judith Butler on Narrative Coherence and the Politics of Self-Narration
Book Review: The Philosophy of Autobiography, edited by Christopher Cowley