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Why Does Life Writing Talk about Science?: Foucault, Rousseau, and the Early Journal Intime
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017
- pp. 307-322
- 10.1353/bio.2017.0018
- Article
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This article examines the reasons why life writing makes use of discourses from the natural sciences. It focuses on the emergence of autobiography and the journal intime in France at the moment of a fundamental shift toward the modern episteme (identified by Foucault), which is both historical and person-centered.