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Augustine the reader [electronic resource] : meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation / Brian Stock.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.Description: 1 online resource (x, 463 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780674044043 (electronic bk.)
  • 0674044045 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Augustine the reader.DDC classification:
  • 270.2/092 22
LOC classification:
  • BR65.A62 S76 1996eb
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Contents:
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 Cogito. The Road toward Wisdom.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.

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 Cogito. The Road toward Wisdom.

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