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Philosophy and Autobiography Christopher Hamilton

Philosophy and Autobiography By Christopher Hamilton

Philosophy and Autobiography by Christopher Hamilton


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Philosophy and Autobiography: Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others by Christopher Hamilton

This book, taking its point of departure from Stanley Cavells claim that philosophy and autobiography are dimensions of each other, aims to explore some of the relations between these forms of reflection, first by seeking to develop an outline of a philosophy of autobiography, and then by exploring the issue from the side of five autobiographicalworks. Christopher Hamilton argues in the volume that there are good reasons for thinking that philosophical texts can be considered autobiographical, and then turns to discuss the autobiographies of Walter Benjamin, Peter Weiss, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Orwell, Edmund Gosse and Albert Camus. In discussing these works, Hamilton exploreshow they put into question certain received understandings of what philosophical texts suppose themselves to be doing, and also how they themselves constitute philosophical explorations of certain key issues, e.g. the self, death, religious and ethical consciousness, sensuality, the body. Throughout, there is an exploration of the ways in whichautobiographies help us in thinking about self-knowledge and knowledge of others. A final chapter raises some issues concerning the fact that the five autobiographies discussed here are all texts dealing with childhood.

About Christopher Hamilton

Christopher Hamiltonis Reader in Philosophy at Kings College London, UK. He is the author of five previous books, includingA Philosophy of Tragedy(2016), as well as articles in ethics, philosophy of religion and aesthetics.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Opening: the voice off in philosophy.- Chapter 2. Introduction: Who is speaking and to whom?.- Chapter 3. The god of the city: Walter Benjamin, enchantment and the material subject.- Chapter 4. An immense expenditure of energy come to nothing: philosophy, literature and death in Peter Weiss Abschied von den Eltern.- Chapter 5. Someone is missing: Jean-Paul Sartre, comedie and the longing for necessity.- Chapter 6.How terrible is the deterioration in myself!: childhood, middle age and the redemption of a humanist in George Orwells Such, Such Were the Joys.- Chapter 7. Little soft oases: Edmund Gosse, the hard-driven soul and inconsolability.- Chapter 8. This book should be heavy with things and flesh: the body, sensation and love of the world in Camus Le premier homme.- Chapter 9. Closing (beginning with an abandoned opening).- Chapter 10. Bibliography.- Chapter 11. Acknowledgements./


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NPB9783030706593
9783030706593
3030706591
Philosophy and Autobiography: Reflections on Truth, Self-Knowledge and Knowledge of Others by Christopher Hamilton
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022-11-14
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