In the self's place : the approach of Saint Augustine /


Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by Jeffrey L. Kosky.
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Originaltittel
[ Au lieu de soi. .] English
Utgitt
Stanford, California : : Stanford University Press, , 2012.
Omfang
1 online resource (447 p.)
Opplysninger
"Originally published in French in 2008 under the title Au lieu de soi.". - In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian corpus. Towards this end, Marion engages with noteworthy modern and postmodern analyses of Augustine's most "experiential" work, including the critical commentaries of Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Marion ultimately concludes that Augustine has preceded postmodernity in exploring an excess of the self over and beyond itself, and in using this alterity of the self to itself, as a driving force for creative relations with God, the world, and others. This reading establishes striking connections between accounts of selfhood across the fields of contemporary philosophy, literary studies, and Augustine's early Christianity.
Emner
Augustine, , Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Self (Philosophy)
Sjanger
Dewey
ISBN
0-8047-8562-7

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