Once Out of Nature : Augustine on Time and the Body
Andrea. Nightingale
Bok Engelsk 2011 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2011.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (259 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Edenic and Resurrected Transhumans; 2. Scattered in Time; 3. The Unsituated Self; 4. Body and Book; 5. Unearthly Bodies; Epilogue: "Mortal Interindebtedness"; Appendix: Augustine on Paul's Conception of the Flesh and the Body; References; Index. - 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 punish
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| Emner | Human body - Religious aspects - Christianity
Time - Christianity - Religious aspects Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Time -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Vis mer... Christianity
Philosophy & Religion Religion kristendom kristen teologi menneskenaturen menneskekroppen kropp tid |
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| ISBN | 0226585751. - 9780226585758
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