Nobody’s Perfect
Autobiography and the Ethos of Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15029970 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas L Dumm (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 758-776 |
| Publication date | 2023-10-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory & Event (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tae.2023.a909215 |
| OpenAlex | W4387618474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
If an autobiography is to be even minimally readable, the autobiographer must step in and subdue what you could call memory's autism, its passion for the tedious.He must not be afraid to invent.Above all he must invent himself.Like Rousseau, who wrote (at the beginning of his novelistic Confessions
Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Democracy · Epistemology · Ethos · Literature · Memoir · nobody · Political science · Politics · Reading (process · Autobiographical and Biographical Writing · Computer Science · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law · Philosophy · Poetry Analysis and Criticism
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |