Philosophy and Life Writing

<p>In this volume scholars from a number of academic disciplines illuminate how a range of philosophers and other thoughtful individuals addressed the complex issues surrounding philosophy and life writing.</p><p></p><p>The contributors interrogate the writings of Teresa of Avila Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Stuart Mill Wilhelm Dilthey Walter Benjamin Albert Camus Bryan Magee Mikhail Bakhtin Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Judith Butler who range in time from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries.</p><p></p><p>As this volume demonstrates the relationship between philosophy and life writing has become an issue of urgent interdisciplinary concern. </p><p></p><p>This book was originally published as a special issue of <i>Life Writing</i>.</p>