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100 1 _aStock, Brian.
245 1 0 _aAugustine the Reader :
_bMeditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c1996.
264 4 _c©1996.
300 _a1 online resource (476 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aIntro -- 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.
520 _aAugustine 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aAugustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430.-Confessiones.
650 0 _aAugustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Books and reading.
650 0 _aAugustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Knowledge and learning.
650 0 _aAugustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Influence.
650 0 _aBooks and reading.
650 0 _aSpirituality-History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aStock, Brian
_tAugustine the Reader
_dCambridge : Harvard University Press,c1996
_z9780674052772
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3300749
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