Abstract
This essay takes up the challenge to philosophical biography thrown down by Collingwood, Rorty and others that biography is useful only for its “gossip value” and hence not for an understanding of a philosopher’s thought. The author, a well-known biographer of both Kant and Fichte, focuses in this essay on the case of the latter, considering how Fichte’s biography may offer some perspective on his famous claim that “what kind of philosophy someone chooses depends on the kind of person he is.
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Kuehn, M. (2015). The (Ir)relevance of Biography: The Case of Fichte. In Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life (Vol. 2, pp. 199–208). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9349-0_14
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