Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Confession of AugustineCondition: NewAuthor: Jean-François LyotardTranslator: Richard BeardsworthContributor: Richard Beardsworth (Translated by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 0804737932EAN: 9780804737937ISBN: 9780804737937Publisher: Stanford University PressGenre: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Date: 08/01/2000Description: This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century engages Augustine's Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training, rearticulating Augustine's sensory universe from a vantage point imaginarily inside the confessant's world, a vantage point that reveals the intense point of conjuncture between the sensual and the spiritual, the erotic world and the mystical, being and appearance, sin and salvation. Lyotard reveals the very origins of phenomenology in Augustine's narrative, and in so doing also shows the origins of semiotics to lie there (in the explication of the Augustinian heavens as skin, as veil, as vellum). Lyotard's explication of Augustine is also a final survey of the entirety of the philosophical enterprise, a philosopher's profound reflections on the very basis of philosophy. He sees the Confessions as a major source of the Western—and decidedly modern—determination of the self and of its normativity, the point of departure for all reflection and the condition of possibility of all experience. Lyotard suggests that Augustine's "I," Descartes's "cogito," and Husserl's "transcendental ego" in essence or structurally say the same thing. Lyotard aims at no simple ascription of Augustine's position. Instead, his text centers on what he takes to be Augustine's central confession: the repeated avowal of an essential uncertainty concerning the status of the faith confessed, of being in a sense already too late, of a difficulty in being no longer of this world while being in it all the same. Far from offering the foundation of all subsequent journeys to selfhood, Lyotard sees the Confessions as many evocations of a certain loss of self, of a temporality that is not given or recuperated all at once—or once and for all—but that time and again is lost or forgotten.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmItem Weight: 181gBook Series: Cultural Memory in the PresentRelease Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Confession of Augustine
Title: The Confession of Augustine
Translator: Richard Beardsworth
Contributor: Richard Beardsworth (Translated by)
ISBN-10: 0804737932
EAN: 9780804737937
ISBN: 9780804737937
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Release Date: 08/01/2000
Release Year: 2000
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 136 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Confession of Augustine
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.3 in
Subject: Religious
Publication Year: 2000
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Subject Area: Philosophy, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Jean-François. Lyotard
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
