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Autobiography as philosophy [electronic resource] : the philosophical uses of self-presentation / edited by Thomas Mathien and D.G. Wright.

Contributor(s): Series: Routledge advances in the history of philosophy ; 2.Publication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.Description: ix, 277 pISBN:
  • 9780203358634
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No title; No titleOnline resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in print edition.
Contents:
Philosophers' autobiographies / Thomas Mathien -- The Confessions of Saint Augustine : accessory to grace / Samantha Thompson -- Who is Peter Abelard? / Calvin G. Normore -- Philosophy without heroism : Montaigne and the vanity of autobiography / D.G. Wright -- Exile and philosophy : Descartes / André Gombay -- Scrissela da filosofo : the life of Giambattista Vico written by himself / Domenico Pietropaolo -- Hume's "life" and the virtues of the dying / Donald C. Ainslie -- Portraying nature : Rousseau's reveries as philosophy and art / Eve Grace -- John Henry Newman and autobiographical philosophy / Jay Newman -- Mill's autobiography / Fred Wilson -- The subject of Nietzsche's Ecce homo / D.G. Wright -- R.G. Collingwood : philosophy as autobiography / Lionel Rubinoff -- Is Bertrand Russell a logical fiction? / John G. Slater.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Philosophers' autobiographies / Thomas Mathien -- The Confessions of Saint Augustine : accessory to grace / Samantha Thompson -- Who is Peter Abelard? / Calvin G. Normore -- Philosophy without heroism : Montaigne and the vanity of autobiography / D.G. Wright -- Exile and philosophy : Descartes / André Gombay -- Scrissela da filosofo : the life of Giambattista Vico written by himself / Domenico Pietropaolo -- Hume's "life" and the virtues of the dying / Donald C. Ainslie -- Portraying nature : Rousseau's reveries as philosophy and art / Eve Grace -- John Henry Newman and autobiographical philosophy / Jay Newman -- Mill's autobiography / Fred Wilson -- The subject of Nietzsche's Ecce homo / D.G. Wright -- R.G. Collingwood : philosophy as autobiography / Lionel Rubinoff -- Is Bertrand Russell a logical fiction? / John G. Slater.

Also available in print edition.

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