ENGL 3156 AMST 3302 Episode 3 - Midsemester Review - Saint Augustine - Confessions - Rousseau - Romanticism and the City, the Crowd...

This podcast looks back at the best known and some say the earliest autobiography in the Western European tradition, Augustine of Hippo's Confessions (5th Century AD / CE), takes a brief digression into the work of 20th-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, drops by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's own Confessions (1782), explores various aspects of the self-other dynamic, and ends with an eye toward industrialization and the city as refuge...