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

• Main Author: Riley, Patrick, 1966- (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
• Subjects: Αυτοβιογραφία > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Φιλόσοφοι > Αυτοβιογραφία > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Φιλόσοφοι > Γαλλία > Βιογραφία

"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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.