Character and conversion in autobiography : Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre /

"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 wor...

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Riley, Patrick, 1966- (συγγραφέας)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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Περίληψη:"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.
Φυσική περιγραφή:x, 224 σ. ; 24 εκ.
Βιβλιογραφία:Περιλαμβάνει βιβλιογραφία (σ. 203-214) και ευρετήριο.
ISBN:0813922925 (cloth : alk. paper)