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