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On Time, Change, History, and Conversion (Paperback)
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On Time, Change, History, and Conversion (Paperback)
Series: Reading Augustine
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Sean Hannan offers a new interpretation of Augustine of Hippo's
approach to temporality by contrasting it with contemporary
accounts of time drawn from philosophy, political theology, and
popular science. Hannan argues that, rather than offering us a
deceptively simple roadmap forward, Augustine asks us to face up to
the question of time itself before we take on tasks like
transforming ourselves and our world. Augustine discovered that the
disorientation we feel in the face of change is a symptom of a
deeper problem: namely, that we cannot truly comprehend time, even
while it conditions every facet of our lives. This book puts
Augustine into creative conversation with contemporary thinkers,
from Pierre Hadot and Giorgio Agamben to Steven Pinker and Stephen
Hawking, on questions such as the definition of time, the
metaphysics of transformation, and the shape of history. The goal
is to learn what Augustine can teach us about the nature of
temporality and the possibility of change in this temporal world of
ours.
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