The Philosopher's Autobiography : A Qualitative Study

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Summary: Philosophical Psychoanalysis Then and Now
Review: This book can change your life, if you would like it (or not)!
It presents the genre philosophical autobiography as a new philosophical literary type. It is a comprehensive source book which discovers the history and developments of recent research in this genre, rendering about 200 references to philosophers with an autobiographic life. Representative narratives investigated include the writings of Plato, Aurelius, Abelard, Al-Ghazali, Dante, Erasmus, Hume, Mill, Kierkegaard, Russell, Gibran, Simone Weil, Hazel Barnes, Alfred Tauber, and others. Extensively examined are the autobiographical works of Augustine, Rousseau, and Sartre. Unlike most literary and psychoanalytic interpretations of life narratives, the author comprehends the philosopher's life from a critical-philosophical perspective, or uses an alternative philosophical psychoanalytic method.