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Augustine the Reader : Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1996Copyright date: ©1996Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (476 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674044043
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Augustine the ReaderDDC classification:
  • 270.2/092
LOC classification:
  • BR65
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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