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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stock, Brian (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
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Online Access:Table of contents
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. Ethics of Interpretation
  • 5. Beginnings
  • Letters
  • Dialogues
  • 6. Speaking and Reading
  • On Dialectic
  • Teacher
  • Defining the Reader
  • 7. Toward Theory
  • Tradition and Beliefs
  • "Uninstructed"
  • Christian Doctrine
  • 8. Memory, Self-Reform and Time
  • Remembering
  • Conduct
  • Time
  • 9. Self
  • Language of Thought
  • Reader and Cogito
  • Road toward Wisdom.