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14 produkter
Augustine's Inner Dialogue
The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity
Av Brian Stock
Inbunden, 2010
1593 kr
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Augustine's philosophy of life involves mediation, reviewing one's past and exercises for self-improvement. Centuries after Plato and before Freud he invented a 'spiritual exercise' in which every man and woman is able, through memory, to reconstruct and reinterpret life's aims. In this 2010 book, …
Augustine the Reader
Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation
Av Brian Stock
Häftad, 1998
543 kr
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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 those of Freud and our own time. Brian Stock provides the first full …
Implications of Literacy
Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Av Brian Stock
Häftad, 1987
817 kr
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This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society. …
Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century
A Study of Bernard Silvester
Av Brian Stock
Häftad, 2015
1516 kr
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The Cosmographia of Bernard Silvester was the most important literary myth written between Lucretius and Dante. One of the most widely read books of its time, it was known to authors whose interests were as diverse as those of Vincent of Beauvais, Dante, and Chaucer. Bernard offers one of the most …
Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century
A Study of Bernard Silvester
Av Brian Stock
Inbunden, 2016
3526 kr
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The Cosmographia of Bernard Silvester was the most important literary myth written between Lucretius and Dante. One of the most widely read books of its time, it was known to authors whose interests were as diverse as those of Vincent of Beauvais, Dante, and Chaucer. Bernard offers one of the most …
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Av Brian Stock
E-bok, 2013
825 kr
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Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical …
Listening for the Text
On the Uses of the Past
Av Brian Stock
Häftad, 1997
384 kr
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"Ours is largely an ahistorical world. And yet we take history very seriously. The more remote the past becomes, the more we seem to concern ourselves with understanding it. We are no longer linked to our ancestors through common material conditions. If earlier ages still have a hold on us, it is …
After Augustine
The Meditative Reader and the Text
Av Brian Stock
Inbunden, 2001
727 kr
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Augustine of Hippo was the most prolific and influential writer on reading between antiquity and the Renaissance, though he left no systematic treatise on the subject. His reluctance to synthesize his views on other important themes such as the sacraments suggests that he would have been skeptical …
Integrated Self
Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought
Av Brian Stock
Inbunden, 2017
802 kr
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Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a lengthy comparison between teachings on the self in the philosophical traditions of Platonism and Neoplatonism and the treatment of the topic in the Psalms, the letters of St. Paul, and other books …
Integrated Self
Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought
Av Brian Stock
E-bok, 2016
978 kr
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Well before his entry into the religious life in the spring of 386 C.E., Augustine had embarked on a lengthy comparison between teachings on the self in the philosophical traditions of Platonism and Neoplatonism and the treatment of the topic in the Psalms, the letters of St. Paul, and other books …
Augustine's Inner Dialogue
The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity
Av Brian Stock
Häftad, 2018
569 kr
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Augustine's philosophy of life involves mediation, reviewing one's past and exercises for self-improvement. Centuries after Plato and before Freud he invented a 'spiritual exercise' in which every man and woman is able, through memory, to reconstruct and reinterpret life's aims. In this 2010 book, …
Implications of Literacy
Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the 11th and 12th Centuries
Av Brian Stock
E-bok, 2021
1252 kr
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This book explores the influence of literacy on eleventh and twelfth-century life and though on social organization, on the criticism of ritual and symbol, on the rise of empirical attitudes, on the relationship between language and reality, and on the broad interaction between ideas and society. …
Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century
A Study of Bernard Silvester
Av Brian Stock
E-bok, 2015
999 kr
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The Cosmographia of Bernard Silvester was the most important literary myth written between Lucretius and Dante. One of the most widely read books of its time, it was known to authors whose interests were as diverse as those of Vincent of Beauvais, Dante, and Chaucer. Bernard offers one of the most …
Ethics through Literature
Av Brian Stock
Inbunden, 2008
450 kr
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Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the ethical objective in the ascetic approach to …
