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

Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press (2004)
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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.

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B104.R55 2004

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