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- catalog abstract ""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 that 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 convinced that words and images play a mediating role in our perceptions of reality. In the union of philosophy, psychology, and literary insights that form the basis of his theory of reading, the reader emerges as the dominant model of the reflective self. Meditative reading, indeed the meditative act that constitutes reading itself, becomes the portal to inner being. At the same time, Augustine argues that the self-knowledge that reading brings is, of necessity, limited, since it is faith rather than interpretive reason that can translate reading into forms of understanding." "In making his theory of reading a central concern, Augustine rethinks ancient doctrines about images, memory, emotion, and cognition. In judging what readers gain and do not gain from the sensory and mental understanding of texts, he takes up questions that have reappeared in contemporary thinking. He prefigures, and in ways he teaches us to recognize, our own preoccupations with the phenomenology of reading, the hermeneutics of tradition, and the ethics of interpretation."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b8974595.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""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 that 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 convinced that words and images play a mediating role in our perceptions of reality. In the union of philosophy, psychology, and literary insights that form the basis of his theory of reading, the reader emerges as the dominant model of the reflective self. Meditative reading, indeed the meditative act that constitutes reading itself, becomes the portal to inner being. At the same time, Augustine argues that the self-knowledge that reading brings is, of necessity, limited, since it is faith rather than interpretive reason that can translate reading into forms of understanding." "In making his theory of reading a central concern, Augustine rethinks ancient doctrines about images, memory, emotion, and cognition. In judging what readers gain and do not gain from the sensory and mental understanding of texts, he takes up questions that have reappeared in contemporary thinking. He prefigures, and in ways he teaches us to recognize, our own preoccupations with the phenomenology of reading, the hermeneutics of tradition, and the ethics of interpretation."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-453) and index.".
- catalog extent "x, 463 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Augustine the reader.".
- catalog identifier "0674052765 (alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "0674052773 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Augustine the reader.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,".
- catalog relation "Augustine the reader.".
- catalog subject "270.2/092 20".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Influence.".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo Knowledge and learning.".
- catalog subject "Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones.".
- catalog subject "BR65.A62 S76 1996".
- catalog subject "Books and reading History.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Self-knowledge, Theory of History.".
- catalog subject "Spirituality History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Augustine the reader : meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation / Brian Stock.".
- catalog type "text".