Books : Saint Augustine's Memory (Augustine, Confessiones. Bk. 2.)
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by: Augustine
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 270.2092
EAN: 9780670031276
ISBN: 0670031275
Label: Viking Adult
Manufacturer: Viking Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2002-12
Publisher: Viking Adult
Sales Rank: 449744
Studio: Viking Adult
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Garry Wills's 'sizzling' (The New York Review of Books) renditions of Saint Augustine's prose in his Penguin Lives biography of the great thinker foreshadowed his translation of Saint Augustine's Childhood, the first book in Augustine's Confessiones. Now, in Saint Augustine's Memory, Wills brings his superb gifts of language and intellect to this important chapter. Acting as the hinge volume of Augustine's confessional opus, Saint Augustine's Memory makes the turn between the writer's life before and after baptism and stands as a meditation on the Confessiones's central concept.
Here in private, Augustine seeks to fathom himself-to emerge later as a visionary for others on a large public stage. To him the 'vast treasure store of memory' is where identity is forged, the context of present and future in which we continually relive original experience and refashion everything we remember. It is a place where we remake ourselves, interact with others, and glimpse God. Masterfully rendered and beautifully designed, Saint Augustine's Memory is sure to fascinate academics, Christians, and the general reader.
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Remembering is a process that never rests. Memory is where Augustine finds himself and others and God. The power of memory is vast. We commit things to memory. We equate memory with mind.
Memory holds the four categories of mind--desire, joy, fear, sorrow. In Book Ten of the CONFESSIONS Augustine moves from the past to the present. The chapter is Augustine's project of self-assessment. Augustine marks the combinative powers of memory. There is a relationship between memory ... Read More
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