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...