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Ethics through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture (Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures)
Ethics through Literature Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture - Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
Author: Brian Stock
Why do we read? Based on a series of lectures delivered at the Historical Society of Israel in 2005, Brian Stock presents a model for relating ascetic and aesthetic principles in Western reading practices. He begins by establishing the primacy of the ethical objective in the ascetic approach to literature in Western classical thought from Plato ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781584656999
ISBN-10: 1584656999
Publication Date: 4/30/2008
Pages: 160
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Publisher: Brandeis
Book Type: Hardcover
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