{"product_id":"autobiography-as-philosophy","title":"Autobiography as Philosophy","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost philosophical writing is impersonal and argumentative, but many important philosophers have nevertheless written accounts of their own lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFilling a gap in the market for a text focusing on autobiography as philosophy, this collection discusses several such autobiographies in the light of their authors' broader work, and considers whether there are any philosophical tasks for which life accounts are particularly appropriate. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInstead of the common impersonal and argumentative forms of ordinary philosophical discussion, these autobiographical texts are deeply personal and largely narrative or explanatory. The contributors to this book examine the philosophical significance of philosophers’ autobiographies and whether or not there are broadly philosophical tasks for which this sort of writing is particularly suited. \u003cem\u003eAutobiography as Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e contains a general discussion about the relation between philosophical and autobiographical writing, and essays on the specific writings of Augustine, Abelard, Montaigne, Descartes, Vico, Hume, Rousseau, Newman, Mill, Nietzsche, Collingwood and Russell by specialists on the works of these individuals. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOriginal and distinctive in its efforts to think about the writings of historically recognized philosophers as communicative acts governed by their own distinctive interests and purposes, the book reveals that it is as much about the texts and the authors as it is about their doctrines and arguments. As a result the book steps back from many of the issues of substantive philosophical discussion to reflect on certain forms of writing as means to philosophical ends, to consider what those ends have included.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54240700137816,"sku":"9780415591577","price":61.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415591577_bb798d3b-5cb1-4897-9520-b3e2558c4ca6.jpg?v=1769595318","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/autobiography-as-philosophy","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}