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18 - Reception during the Enlightenment

A for Anti-Augustine

from Part III - Reception and Reading Strategies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2020

By
Patrick Riley
Edited by
Tarmo Toom
Tarmo Toom
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
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Summary

This chapter examines the reception of Augustine’s “Confessions” in the Enlightenment through three major lexicographical works: Pierre Bayle’s Historical and Critical Dictionary; Chevalier de Jaucourt’s entry in the Encyclopédie, “Church Fathers”; and Voltaire’s Questions on the Encyclopedia. All of them deliberately misappropriate Augustine's account of his life as a sinner in order to undermine aspects of his theology, and, by extension, the theology of Jansenism in their own era.

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the EnlightenmentlexicographyJansenismCalvinism
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The Cambridge Companion to Augustine's 'Confessions' , pp. 295 - 316
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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Further Reading

Archambault, P. J. “Rousseau’s Tactical (Mis)reading of Augustine,” Symposium 41/1 (Spring 1987), 6–14.Google Scholar
Bost, H. “Bayle, Pierre.” In OGHRA, vol. 2, 634a–636a.Google Scholar
Courcelle, P. Les “Confessions” de Saint Augustin dans la tradition littéraire: Antécédents et postérité. Paris: Etudes augustiniennes, 1963.Google Scholar
Hartle, A. The Modern Self in Rousseau’s “Confessions”: A Reply to Saint Augustine, Revisions 4. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Qvortup, M. “Rousseau, Jean-Jaques.” In OGHRA, vol. 3, 1657a–1677a.Google Scholar
Riley, P. Character and Conversion in Autobiography: Augustine, Montaigne, Descartes, Rousseau, and Sartre. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2004.Google Scholar
Riley, P. “The Inversion of Conversion: Rousseau’s Rewriting of Augustinian Autobiography.” Studies in Eighteenth Century Culture 28 (1999), 229–255.Google Scholar
Weintraub, K. J. The Value of the Individual: Self and Circumstance in Autobiography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1978.Google Scholar
Wheelan, R. “The Wage of Sin is Orthodoxy: The Confessions of Saint Augustine in Bayle’s Dictionnaire.” Journal of the History of Philosophy 26/2 (April 1988), 195–206.Google Scholar

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