TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stock,Brian
TI  - Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation
SN  - 9780674044043
AV  - BR65 
U1  - 270.2/092 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Augustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430.-Confessiones
KW  - Augustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Books and reading
KW  - Augustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Knowledge and learning
KW  - Augustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Influence
KW  - Books and reading
KW  - Spirituality-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. CONFESSIONS 1-9 -- 1. Learning to Read -- Words -- Reading and Writing -- Self-Improvement -- 2. Intellectual Horizons -- Manichaeism -- Ambrose -- Neoplatonism -- 3. Reading and Conversion -- Alypius -- Simplicianus -- Ponticianus -- Augustine -- 4. From Cassiciacum to Ostia -- Cassiciacum -- Ostia -- II. THE ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION -- 5. Beginnings -- The Letters -- The Dialogues -- 6. Speaking and Reading -- On Dialectic -- The Teacher -- Defining the Reader -- 7. Toward Theory -- Tradition and Beliefs -- The "Uninstructed" -- Christian Doctrine -- 8. Memory, Self-Reform, and Time -- Remembering -- Conduct -- Time -- 9. The Self -- A Language of Thought -- The Reader and the Cogito -- The Road toward Wisdom -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
N2  - Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to Freud and our own time. Stock provides the first full account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine's work
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