Brian Stock (historian)

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Brian Charles Alexander Stock (born June 8, 1939 in Spokane ) is an American historian .

Life

Brian Stock is a graduate of Harvard College and Trinity College (Cambridge) and has taught at numerous universities in Canada, the United States and Europe, including the University of Cambridge , the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley , where he started in 2001 as a Sather Professor the lectures Augustine's Inner Dialogue. The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity . In 2007 he received the Antonio Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome), and in 2010 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

With Charles Halpern , one of the organizers of the Center for Contemplative Mind, he chaired the American Council of Learned Societies' Committee for Contemplative Practice Fellowships for two years. His research focuses on reading and writing learning, reading practice, and the relationship between reading, inner life of the mind, and secular and religious meditation in the Classical Period and the Middle Ages.

Fonts (selection)

  • Myth and science in the twelfth century. A study of Bernard Silvester . Princeton 1972, ISBN 0-691-05201-8 .
  • The implications of literacy. Written language and models of interpretation in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . Princeton 1983, ISBN 0-691-05368-5 .
  • Augustine the reader. Meditation, self-knowledge, and the ethics of interpretation . Cambridge 1996, ISBN 0-674-05276-5 .
  • After Augustine. The Meditative Reader and the Text . Philadelphia 2001, ISBN 0-8122-3602-5 .
  • Ethics through Literature. Aesthetic and Ascetic Reading in Western Culture . Hanover 2007, ISBN 1-58465-699-9 .
  • Augustine's Inner Dialogue. The Philosophical Soliloquy in Late Antiquity . Cambridge 2010, ISBN 0-521-19031-2 .
  • The Integrated Self. Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought . Philadelphia 2017, ISBN 0-8122-4871-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brian Charles Alexander Stock. In: amacad.org. American Academy of Arts and Sciences , accessed June 29, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Stock, Brian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stock, Brian Charles Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Spokane