Augustine the reader : meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation

Author/Creator:

Stock, Brian

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996

Resource Type:

Book

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Full Title:

Augustine the reader : meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation / Brian Stock

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo.Confessiones
Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo--Books and reading
Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo--Knowledge and learning
Augustine,Saint, Bishop of Hippo--Influence
Books and reading
Spirituality--History

Description/Summary

Table of Contents:

Introduction I CONFESSIONS 1-9 Learning to Read Words Reading and Writing Self-Improvement Intellectual Horizons Manichaeism Ambrose Neoplatonism Reading and Conversion Alypius Simplicianus Ponticianus Augustine From Cassiciacum to Ostia Cassiciacum Ostia II THE ETHICS OF INTERPRETATION Beginnings The Letters The Dialogues Speaking and Reading On Dialectic The Teacher Defining the Reader Toward Theory Tradition and Beliefs The "Uninstructed" Christian Doctrine Memory, Self-Reform, and Time Remembering Conduct Time The Self A Language of Thought The Reader and the Cogito The Road toward Wisdom Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

Language:

English

Language Note:

English

Physical Type/Description:

1 online resource (x, 463 pages)

General Note:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936535313302486

ISBN:

0-674-04404-5

OCLC Number:

923117188

Other Identifiers:

doi: 10.4159/9780674044043