Abstract

In philosophers’ diaries the individuality of men and women, their daily pain and pleasure, uniquely meets, and sometimes clashes, with the universal, or at least general, claims bound up with their metier. Following the genre’s history from the later 18th century to the present, Andreas Dorschel distinguishes (by way of ideal types) between (a) experimental diaries, (b) methodical diaries, (c) representative diaries, and (d) intimate diaries.