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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674052765
• ISBN13: 9780674052765
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 475 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.3" x 6.5"