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

by Brian Stock

Book Overview

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 account of this theory within the evolution of Augustine's early dialogues, his Confessions, and his systematic treatises.

Augustine was...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052773
• ISBN13: 9780674052772
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 475 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.2"