Shortly before his death, David Hume wrote an autobiographical essay he entitled “My Own Life.” It opens with the statement: “It is difficult for a man to speak long of himself without vanity; therefore I shall be short.” In about ten pages that mostly testify to his sociable nature, Hume recounts “little more than the history of [his] writings.” Rousseau’s death left his Reveries of the Solitary Walker unfinished. This was his third autobiography, after the Confessions and the dialogue Rousseau Judge of Jean-Jacques. The book opens with the sentence “Here I am then, alone on earth.” This difference of temperament all too painfully manifest in the catastrophic conclusion of the two philosophers’ short-lived friendship can serve to dramatize the question whether philosophy could take the guise of autobiography. [download]
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