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Conversion Works

by Allen Jeffrey A. Allen

  • Paperback
  • 126 pages
  • Publisher: Cascade Books
  • 14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm

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In this book, conversion means abandoning a world view and starting over. Using this definition of conversion, the book examines four works: Augustine of Hippo's Confessions, René Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy, Bernard Lonergan's Insight: A Study of Human Understanding, and Peter Weir's The Truman Show. The main argument of this book is that all four works contain and induce conversion. That is, all four works feature an individual who abandons a worldview and starts over, and all four works exhort their engager to do the same. This book also explores the works' requirement of cognitive imitation, wherein a person replicates the mental activities of the individual who has a conversion in the work, and of private engagement, wherein a person reads or views the work while alone. The book concludes with an argument for the educational value of the four works that appropriates Ernest Becker's The Denial of Death.
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  • Title

    Conversion Works

  • Author

    Allen Jeffrey A. Allen

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cascade Books

  • Published

    November 2021

  • Weight

    168g

  • Page Count

    126

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 0.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781532688768

  • ISBN-10

    1532688768

  • Eden Code

    5647242