Why does life-writing talk about science?: Foucault, Rousseau, and the early journal intime
This article examines the reasons why life-writing makes use of discourses from the natural sciences. It focuses on the emergence of autobiography and the journal intime in France at the moment of a fundamental shift towards the modern episteme (identified by Foucault), which is both historical and...
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University of Hawaii Press
2017
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