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Synopsis
In making the condition for its own possibility its deepest concern, philosophy is necessarily about itself_it is autobiographical. The first part of The Autobiography of Philosophy 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. The second part is a reading of Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker.
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For Heidegger, an authentic project of philosophy was predicated upon authentic being () or, in the formulation of Davis (political philosophy, Fordham U.) an authentic autobiography of the philosopher's thought. He argues that this concern for autobiography was shared by Socrates, Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Aristotle, After examining their modes of thought, Davis devotes the bulk of his attention to the philosopher he feels epitomizes this concern<-->Jean Jacques Rousseau<-->as demonstrated in his . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)