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The Confession of Augustine (Paperback)
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The Confession of Augustine (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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Loot Price R595
Discovery Miles 5 950
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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.
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