Character and conversion in autobiography : Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre / Patrick Riley.
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ΚείμενοΛεπτομέρειες δημοσίευσης: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.Περιγραφή: x, 224 σ. ; 24 εκISBN: - 0813922925 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία (σ. 203-214) και ευρετήριο.
1. Changing the subject : autobiography and conversion -- 2. Augustine's Confessions and the paradoxes of conversion -- 3. Reflections and deflections of the Augustinian model : Montaigne and Descartes -- 4. The inversion of conversion : Rousseau's autobiographies -- 5. Sartre's Words : writing as conversion, rewriting conversion.
"Beginning with Augustine's Confessions as the canonical model of religious conversion, the author investigates the changing forms of conversion in selected works by Montaigne and Descartes, culminating in reformulations by Rousseau and Sartre. Moving from a purely religious rebirth to works grounded in a personal philosophy or aesthetic vocation, the autobiographies considered in this book stand as episodes in a genealogy of conversion."--BOOK JACKET.
