The Autobiography of Philosophy

Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

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Michael Davis

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This text interprets Heidegger's "Being and Time", Nietzsche's "On the Genealogy of Morals", Aristotle's "Metaphysics" and Plato's "Lysis" as examples of the implicitly autobiographical character of philosophy. Davis goes on to provide a reading of Rousseau's "Reveries of the Solitary Walker". Although Rousseau's explicitly autobiographical writings are more often read for the tantalizing details of his rather eccentric life than for their philosophical import, this work is an artful use of his exile and isolation as a paradigm for the human soul in its relation to the world.

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Michael Davis is professor of philosophy at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent works include The Politics of Philosophy: A Commentary on AristotleOs Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 1996).

Release date Australia

December 23rd, 1998

Author

Michael Davis

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Pages

296

Dimensions

147x228x16

ISBN-13

9780847692279

Product ID

5868810

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