{"product_id":"the-philosophers-i-j-lenore-wright-9780791469149","title":"The Philosopher's \"i\": Autobiography and the Search for the Self","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUsing works written over the course of 1,500 years, considers philosophers' autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines philosophers' autobiographies as a genre of philosophical writing. Author J. Lenore Wright focuses her attention on five philosophical autobiographies: Augustine's Confessions, Descartes' Meditations, Rousseau's The Confessions, Nietzsche's Ecce Homo, and Hazel Barnes's The Story I Tell Myself. In the context of first-person narration, she shows how the philosophers in question turn their attention inward and unleash their analytical rigor on themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWright argues that philosophical autobiography makes philosophical analysis necessary and that one cannot unfold without the other. Her distinction between the ontological and rhetorical dimensions of the self creates a rich middle ground in which questions of essence and identity bear upon existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e J. Lenore Wright\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 079146914X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780791469149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e State University of New York Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.78h x 6.08w x 0.57d","brand":"J. Lenore Wright","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096728707327,"sku":"9780791469149","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-philosophers-i-j-lenore-wright-9780791469149","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}