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Augustine and Time (Paperback)
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Augustine and Time (Paperback)
Series: Augustine in Conversation: Tradition and Innovation
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This collection examines the topic of time in the life and works of
Augustine of Hippo. Adopting a global perspective on time as a
philosophical and theological problem, the volume includes
reflections on the meaning of history, the mortality of human
bodies, and the relationship between temporal experience and
linguistic expression. As Augustine himself once observed, time is
both familiar and surprisingly strange. Everyone's days are
structured by temporal rhythms and routines, from watching the
clock to whiling away the hours at work. Few of us, however, take
the time to sit down and figure out whether time is real or not, or
how it is we are able to hold our past, present, and future
thoughts together in a straight line so that we can recite a prayer
or sing a song. Divided into five sections, the essays collected
here highlight the ongoing relevance of Augustine's work even in
settings quite distinct from his own era and context. The first
three sections, organized around the themes of interpretation,
language, and gendered embodiment, engage directly with Augustine's
own writings, from the Confessions to the City of God and beyond.
The final two sections, meanwhile, explore the afterlife of the
Augustinian approach in conversation with medieval Islamic and
Christian thinkers (like Avicenna and Aquinas), as well as a broad
range of Buddhist figures (like Dharmakirti and Vasubandhu). What
binds all of these diverse chapters together is the underlying
sense that, regardless of the century or the tradition in which we
find ourselves, there is something about the puzzle of temporality
that refuses to go away. Time, as Augustine knew, demands our
attention. This was true for him in late ancient North Africa. It
was also true for Buddhist thinkers in South and East Asia. And it
remains just as true for humankind in the twenty-first century, as
people around the globe continue to grapple with the reality of
time and the challenges of living in a world that always seems to
be to be speeding up rather than slowing down.
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