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Author Stock, Brian.

Title Augustine the reader : meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation / Brian Stock
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996

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 W'PONDS  270.2092 Sto/Atr  AVAILABLE
Description x, 463 pages ; 24 cm
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
Analysis Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Books and reading - History - To 1500
Notes Bibliography: p[419]-453. _ Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-453) and index
Notes English
Subject 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.
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430. Confessions
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430. Confessiones.
Augustine, of Hippo, Saint, 354-430.
Bowen, H. J. M. (Humphry John Moule)
Feldman, S. Shirley.
Wolman, Benjamin B. (Benjamin Binem), 1908-
Harper, David M.
Books and reading -- History.
Books and reading.
Self-knowledge, Theory of -- History.
Spirituality -- History.
Philosophy of mind.
LC no. 95034831
ISBN 0674052765 (alk. paper)