{"id":5841,"date":"2018-11-14T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/?p=5841"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:31:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T10:31:51","slug":"biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Hannah Dawson\/ Robert Rowland Smith\/ Helen Tyson<\/span><!--more--><\/h3>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">Listen to the recording <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/media.rawvoice.com\/lse_europeaninstitute\/richmedia.lse.ac.uk\/europeaninstitute\/20181116_biography.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a><\/span> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UqJ1P63bKFw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">When the French philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau set out to write his Confessions in 1782, he proposed \u2018to set before my fellow-mortals a man in all the truth of nature; this man shall be myself\u2019. Philosophers have long engaged with the confessional form, from Plato and Augustine to Derrida and Cixous. Is biography an inherently philosophical medium? How does life inflect the philosophy of any given thinker? Or should we make a distinction between the facts of a philosopher\u2019s life and their philosophical thought?\u00a0Int his podcast, we discuss the philosophy and the art of biography.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">Speakers<br \/>\n<a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kcl.ac.uk\/artshums\/depts\/history\/people\/staff\/academic\/dawsonh\/dawsonh.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hannah Dawson<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080\">, Senior Lecturer in the History of Political Thought, KCL; Author,\u00a0<em>Life Lessons from Hobbes<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.robertrowlandsmith.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Robert Rowland Smith<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080\">, Quondam Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford; Author, <em>Autobiophilosophy<\/em> and <em>Driving with Socrates<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sussex.ac.uk\/profiles\/397950\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Helen Tyson<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080\">, Lecturer in 20th and 21st Century British Literature, University of Sussex<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><span style=\"color: #808080\">Chair<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/shahidha-bari\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shahidha Bari<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080\">, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy; Senior Lecturer in Romanticism, Queen Mary University of London<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080\">Recorded on 14 November 2018 at the LSE<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/ac\/ERKS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Subscribe to podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hannah Dawson\/ Robert Rowland Smith\/ Helen Tyson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1169,"featured_media":5612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_expiration-date-status":"saved","_expiration-date":0,"_expiration-date-type":"","_expiration-date-categories":[],"_expiration-date-options":[]},"categories":[109],"tags":[89,71],"coauthors":[153],"class_list":["post-5841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","tag-historyofphilosophy","tag-philosophyandliterature"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/files\/2018\/10\/7-BIOGRAPHY-simple.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6zUjQ-1wd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5841"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16078,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5841\/revisions\/16078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5841"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ffephilosophy.org\/theforum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=5841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}