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Augustine the Reader - Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation (Paperback, Revised)
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Augustine the Reader - Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation (Paperback, Revised)
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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.
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