Biography is not destiny philosophy examples

Heideggerian philosophy

Any truth such a text offers will necessarily be problematic: it can never be more than a reconstruction from the point of view of the moment of writing, in various ways stylised. The chapter then turns to consider some work of Arendt on the concept of agency and argues, first, that our agency is decentred, that is, depends on social, political, and other forces the individual agent cannot fully know or control and, second, that auto biographical writing needs to take this into account.

The chapter goes on to argue that there is nothing in an auto biography that could count as telling the truth of a life. This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access. Institutional subscriptions. Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition. Google Scholar. Benjamin, Walter. The Storyteller. In Illuminations , ed.

Harry Zorn and intro.