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The philosopher's "I" autobiography and the search for the self
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Title
The philosopher's "I" [electronic resource] : autobiography and the search for the self / J. Lenore Wright.
ISBN
9780791480984
0791469131 (hardcover : alk. paper)
079146914X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791469132
9780791469149
Published
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2006. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012)
Physical Description
1 online resource (x, 217 p. )
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Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Archival Complete Foundation Collection
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Books Archival Subscription Plan
Project MUSE - UPCC 2012 Philosophy and Religion Foundation Collection
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Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 13, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-209) and index.
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.
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