Augustine Our Contemporary

Examining the Self in Past and Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-268-10345-3
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press

Buch, Englisch, 476 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 742 g

In the massive literature on the idea of the self, the Augustinian influence has often played a central role. The volume Augustine Our Contemporary, starting from the compelling first essay by David W. Tracy, addresses this influence from the Middle Ages to modernity and from a rich variety of perspectives, including theology, philosophy, history, and literary studies.

The collected essays in this volume all engage Augustine and the Augustinian legacy on notions of selfhood, interiority, and personal identity. Written by prominent scholars, the essays demonstrate a connecting thread: Augustine is a thinker who has proven his contem - poraneity in Western thought time and time again. He has been “the contemporary” of thinkers ranging from Eriugena to Luther to Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. His influence has been dominant in certain eras, and in others he has left traces and fragments that, when stitched together, create a unique impression of the “presentness” of Christian selfhood. As a whole, Augustine Our Contemporary sheds rele vant new light on the continuity of the Western Christian tradition.

This volume will interest academics and students of philosophy, political theory, and religion, as well as scholars of postmodernism and Augustine.

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Über Autor(innen)

Willemien Otten is professor of theology and the history of Christianity at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the College.