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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Autor principal: Riley, Patrick, 1966-
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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245 1 0 |a Character and conversion in autobiography :  |b Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre /  |c Patrick Riley. 
260 |a Charlottesville :  |b University of Virginia Press,  |c 2004. 
300 |a x, 224 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 203-214) e índice. 
505 0 |a 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. 
520 1 |a "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."--Solapa anterior. 
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650 0 |a Conversion  |x History. 
650 0 |a Autobiography. 
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