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Character and conversion in autobiography : Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre / Patrick Riley.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riley, Patrick, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophers--Biography--History and criticism.
- Philosophers.
- Philosophers--Biography.
- Philosophers--France--Biography--History and criticism.
- Conversion.
- History.
- France.
- Conversion--History.
- Autobiography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 224 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
- Summary:
- 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 the reformulation 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813922925
- OCLC:
- 54843981
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