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

Title: Character and conversion in autobiography : Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre / Patrick Riley.
Author: Riley, Patrick, 1966-
Publication: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.

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Description

x, 224 pages; 24 cm

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 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."--Jacket.

Subject

Genre/Form

Autobiography
Autobiographies.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

ISBN

0813922925
9780813922928

LCCN

2004006329

OCLC

ocm54843981
54843981
SCSB-1345781

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library