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

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

Stock displays an enviable and intimate knowledge of the text of Augustine, above all of his Confessions and, as the book progresses, of the De Trinitate.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stock, Brian
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Subjects:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430. > Confessiones.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430 > Books and reading.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430 > Influence.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430 > Knowledge and learning.
Confessiones (Augustine, of Hippo, Saint)
Self-knowledge, Theory of > History.
Books and reading > History.
Books and reading.
Spirituality > History.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of 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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