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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820607503321

Autore

Stock Brian

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1996

ISBN

0-674-04404-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 463 pages)

Disciplina

270.2092

Soggetti

Books and reading

Spirituality - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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