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A Meta-Biography of the Wittgensteins: Das Familiengedächtnis
Das Familiengedächtnis der Wittgensteins (2011) could be considered as a metabiography, as literary scholar Caitríona Ní Dhúill has called it (2020);...
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Richard Rorty’s Intellectual Biography
In this chapter I will bring together two seemingly irreconcilable aspects of Rorty’s intellectual biography: on the one hand its consistency,...
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Biography and betrayal
John Bayley was married to Iris Murdoch for 45 years. In the last few years of her life, Murdoch developed Alzheimer’s, and John Bayley wrote...
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Singing the Biography: Media Mesh and Aesthetic Reconstitution in an Ethno-Musical Life Narrative
If the current predominant format of disseminating biography in writing has unwittingly led to the perception and therefore constitution of writing...
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Richard Rorty’s Intellectual Biography
In this chapter I will bring together two seemingly irreconcilable aspects of Rorty’s intellectual biography: on the one hand its consistency,...
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Historical Biography: Giving the Dead Their Due
Authors of historical biographies do not as a rule write in order to satisfy whatever ambitions their subjects may have had to be posthumously...
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Ernest Nagel: A Biography
This paper provides a summary and overview of Ernest Nagel’s life, based on his archive correspondence with members of the Vienna Circle and other...
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Historical Premises and Congenital Contradictions in Italian Biography
It has been widely discussed that, in Gramsci’s view, fascism was a complex phenomenon, full of premises and implications, whose deeper causes should...
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Conclusion: Remorse as a Challenge to Be Met—Biography and Bibliotherapy
Murdoch’s peculiar insistence on remorse towards the end of her life suggests that it holds particular philosophical and personal significance for...
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An Intellectual Biography of Thomas Percival
Percival’s writings were published in four volumes in 1807, edited by his son Edward Percival (Percival 1807). These volumes were reprinted in 1870...
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Fighting for philosophy in the Marxian sense: introduction to Evald Ilyenkov’s “On the state of philosophy [letter to the Central Committee of the Party]
The text introduces a translation of Ilyenkov’s famous text “On the State of Philosophy,” which was meant as a letter to the Central Committee of the...
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Cultural Encounters and Indo-German Consciousness: Prince Frederick August of Augustenburg in India
This chapter studies the scattered career of Prince Frederick August of Augustenburg (1830–1881). Caught between the German-Danish conflict within...
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Who was J. B. S. Haldane?
Subramanian has produced a new biography of Haldane taking into account archival material that has only become public during the last decade. He has...
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James Mill and the History of the History of British India
Apart from the economic drain of wealth that occurs under imperialism, it is the colonizer’s discourse on the colonized that is most insidious. Once...
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Review: Ilse Korotin, Amalia M. Rosenblüth-Dengler (1892-1979). Philosophin und Bibliothekarin. Biografische Spuren eines Frauenlebens zwischen Aufbruch und Resignation, Praesens Verlag 2021
The life of the philosopher and librarian Amalia Rosenblüth (1892–1979), who was in touch with the Lemberg-Warsaw-School (Lemberg-Warschauer-Schule)...
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Death in Advance? A critique of the “Zombification” of people with dementia
This contribution sets out to criticize the prominent metaphor of “death while alive” in the context of dementia. We first explain the historical...
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John Locke
The chapter opens with a quick biography of John Locke. I then endeavour to delineate his epistemology as documented in his An Essay Concerning Human...
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Lenin and the Topicality of Revolution
As we have seen, Gramsci’s encounter with Turin was of paramount importance in his human and intellectual biography because he saw city as the...