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

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

Penned By Brian Stock
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Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge & the Ethics of Interpretation

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

Penned By Brian Stock
4.85 10,424 Ratings
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Augustine, a central figure in the history of Western thought, is also the author of a theory of reading that has had influence on Western letters from the ages of Petrarch, Montaigne, Luther & Rousseau to that of Freud & our time. Brian Stock provides the 1st full account of this theory within the evolution of the early dialogs, the Confessions & systematic treatises. Augustine was convinced that words & images play a mediating role in perceptions of reality. In the union of philosophy, psychology & literary insights forming the basis of his theory of reading, the reader emerges as the dominant model of the reflective self. Meditative reading, indeed the meditative act constituting reading, becomes the portal to inner being. At the same time, he argues that the self-knowledge reading brings is, of necessity, limited, since it's faith rather than interpretive reason that translates reading into forms of understanding. In making his theory of reading a central concern, he rethinks ancient doctrines about images, memory, emotion & cognition. In judging what readers do & don't gain from the sensory & mental understanding of texts, he takes up questions that have reappeared in contemporary thinking. He prefigures, & teaches us to recognize, our preoccupations with the phenomenology of reading, the hermeneutics of tradition & the ethics of interpretation.

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Length N/A Pages
Language Eng
Imprint Belknap/Harvard University Press (MA)
Released January 12, 1996
Identifier (ISBN) 1299124
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Brian Stock is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, Brian Stock can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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