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Augustine's Inner Dialogue
The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity

Author: Brian Stock, University of Toronto

Date Published: August 2018
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format: Paperback
isbn: 9781108466806

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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. Brian Stock examines Augustine's unique way of blending literary and philosophical themes. He proposes a new interpretation of Augustine's early writings, establishing how the philosophical soliloquy (soliloquium) has emerged as a mode of inquiry and how it relates to problems of self-existence and self-history. The book also provides clear analysis of inner dialogue and discourse and how, as inner dialogue complements and finally replaces outer dialogue, a style of thinking emerges, arising from ancient sources and a religious attitude indebted to Judeo-Christian tradition.
- Provides an introduction to the early writings of Augustine of Hippo, with a clear examination of the central works
- Describes the philosophical soliloquy, indicating its importance as a new literary genre in the ancient world
- Outlines Augustine's philosophy in ancient and Christian terms
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Product details
- Date Published: August 2018
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108466806
- length: 254 pages
- dimensions: 230 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.4kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Preface and acknowledgements
Chronology
Introduction
1. Toward inner dialogue
2. Soliloquy and self-existence
3. Order and freedom
4. Narrative
Conclusion.
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Brian Stock, University of Toronto
Brian Stock is Emeritus Professor of History and Literature at the University of Toronto. His previous publications include The Implications of Literacy (1981), Augustine the Reader (1996) and Bibliothèques intérieures (2005).