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Augustine and the Dialogue (Hardcover)
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Augustine and the Dialogue (Hardcover)
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Contrary to the scholarly consensus, Augustine and the Dialogue
argues that Augustine's dialogues, with their inconclusive debates
and dramatic shifts in focus, betray a sophisticated pedagogical
method which combines strategies for 'un-learning' and
self-reflection with a willingness to proceed via provisional
answers. By shifting the focus from doctrinal content to questions
of method, Kenyon seeks to reframe scholarly discussions of
Augustine's earliest surviving body of works. This approach shows
the young Augustine not refuting so much as appropriating Academic
skeptical practices. It also shows that the dialogues' few
scriptural references, e.g. Wisdom 11:20's 'measure, number,
weight', come at key structural points. This helps articulate the
dialogues' larger project of cultivating virtue and their approach
to philosophy as a form of purification. Augustine is shown to be
at home with pluralistic approaches, and Kenyon holds up his
methodology as an attractive model for thinking through problems of
the liberal academy today.
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