Autobiography of Philosophy: Rousseau's The Reveries of the Solitary Walker

By Michael Davis

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0847692272
• ISBN13: 9780847692279
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An excellent guide to the deeper meaning of Rousseau

Here one walks into profound reveries of unraveled clarity. Davis's book is a powerful, inspired, and enormously thought explication which gives birth to new wisdom honoring the words of Rousseau. Davis knows that the only way to do justice to him is to faithfully and painstakingly follow Rousseau's path. He is the most fortunate of authors to have Michael Davis as his companion. Suffer the first four chapters; what follows, especially in the last two chapters, will justify your effort to understand. Anyone interested in philosophy should read this book.