Ethics Through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture by Brian Stock

Ethics Through Literature: Ascetic and Aesthetic Reading in Western Culture

Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures

Brian Stock

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nonfiction classics lgbtqia+ literary informative reflective medium-paced
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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 ...

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