From the metaphysical self to the psychic self
Self-writing and conversion rhetoric from Saint Augustine to Nietzsche
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Philosophical autobiography, self-writing, conversion rhetoric, religion, secularizationAbstract
This article will discuss, from a diachronic perspective, the rhetorical formulas of conversion present in the self-portrait of the thinker who embarks on the introspective, retrospective and alterspective journey that the self-writing process entails. Furthermore, the evolution from the metaphysical self to the psychic self will be framed in the history of philosophical autobiography; an evolution closely related to a progressive secularization of the rhetoric of conversion and of the self-writing process itself.
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