
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1994
Pages: 297-317
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
ISBN (Hardback): 9780792327929
Full citation:
, "Biography as a cultural discipline", in: Phenomenology of the cultural disciplines, Berlin, Springer, 1994


Biography as a cultural discipline
pp. 297-317
in: Mano Daniel, Lester Embree (eds), Phenomenology of the cultural disciplines, Berlin, Springer, 1994Abstract
The biographical subject is the cultural object par excellence. By examining how biographers go about the task of studying and assembling their biographical texts, we will acquire a better appreciation of the nature of cultural objects and the appropriate philosophical and methodological strategies that facilitate the description and explanation of such objects. I begin by reflecting upon the practice of biographical writing in order to illuminate and explicate some of the salient features and theoretical concerns of biographical writing as experienced by practicing biographers. I then canvass and discuss ways in which biographies play relevant methodological and cultural roles.
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1994
Pages: 297-317
Series: Contributions to Phenomenology
ISBN (Hardback): 9780792327929
Full citation:
, "Biography as a cultural discipline", in: Phenomenology of the cultural disciplines, Berlin, Springer, 1994