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

Brian Stock

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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge & the Ethics of Interpretation. To get started finding Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge & the Ethics of Interpretation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge & the Ethics of Interpretation. To get started finding Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge & the Ethics of Interpretation, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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