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Author:   D. L. LeMahieu ,  Christopher Cowley
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.340kg
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9780367664282

ISBN 10:   0367664283
Pages:   168
Publication Date:   30 September 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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

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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).

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