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Once Out of Nature - Augustine on Time and the Body (Hardcover)
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Once Out of Nature - Augustine on Time and the Body (Hardcover)
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"Once Out of Nature" offers an original interpretation of
Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws
on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to
analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, and the
human and transhuman condition. In Nightingale's view, the notion
of embodiment illuminates a set of problems much larger than the
body itself: it captures the human experience of being an embodied
soul dwelling on earth. In Augustine's writings, humans live both
in and out of nature--exiled from Eden and punished by mortality,
they are "resident aliens" on earth. While the human body is
subject to earthly time, the human mind is governed by what
Nightingale calls psychic time. For the human psyche always
stretches away from the present moment--where the physical body
persists--into memories and expectations. As Nightingale explains,
while the body is present in the here and now, the psyche cannot
experience self-presence. Thus, for Augustine, the human being
dwells in two distinct time zones, in earthly time and in psychic
time. The human self, then, is a moving target. Adam, Eve, and the
resurrected saints, by contrast, live outside of time and nature:
these transhumans dwell in an everlasting present. Nightingale
connects Augustine's views to contemporary debates about
transhumans and suggests that Augustine's thought reflects our own
ambivalent relationship with our bodies and the earth. "Once Out of
Nature" offers a compelling invitation to ponder the boundaries of
the human.
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