Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation

✍ Scribed by Brian Stock

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 473
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to Freud and our own time. Stock provides the first full account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine’s work.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-K

📁 Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation

✍ Brian Stock 📂 Library 📅 1996 🏛 Belknap Press 🌐 English

Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to those of Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first ful

Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-K

📁 Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation

✍ Brian Stock 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Belknap Press 🌐 English

Augustine of Hippo, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had a profound influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther, and Rousseau to those of Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full ac

Ethics and Self-Knowledge: Respect for S

📁 Ethics and Self-Knowledge: Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents

✍ Peter Lucas (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

This book explores the theoretical basis of our ethical obligations to others as self-knowing beings - this task being envisaged as an essential supplement to a traditional ethic of respect for persons. Authoritative knowledge of others brings with it certain obligations, which are reflected in (

Ethics and Self-Knowledge: Respect for S

📁 Ethics and Self-Knowledge: Respect for Self-Interpreting Agents

✍ Peter Lucas (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Springer Netherlands 🌐 English

📁 Ethics and self-knowledge : respect for self-interpreting agents

✍ Lucas, Peter, Dr 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Dordrecht ; New York : Springer 🌐 English

Includes bibliographical references and index

Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interp

📁 Third-Person Self-Knowledge, Self-Interpretation, and Narrative

✍ Patrizia Pedrini, Julie Kirsch 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 Springer International Publishing 🌐 English

This volume answers questions that lead to a clearer picture of third-person self- knowledge, the self-interpretation it embeds, and its narrative structure. Bringing together current research on third-person self-knowledge and self-interpretation, the book focuses on third-person self-