Augustine and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Augustine and Modernity write by Michael Hanby. This book was released on 2003. Augustine and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text debates the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity & the Christian genesis of Western nihilism.
Augustine and Modernity
Augustine and Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Augustine and Modernity write by Michael Hanby. This book was released on 2003. Augustine and Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text debates the Augustinian origins of modern subjectivity & the Christian genesis of Western nihilism.
The Modernity of Saint Augustine
The Modernity of Saint Augustine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Modernity of Saint Augustine write by Jean Guitton. This book was released on 1959. The Modernity of Saint Augustine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Augustinian Imperative
The Augustinian Imperative - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Augustinian Imperative write by William E. Connolly. This book was released on 2002. The Augustinian Imperative available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An entirely new interpretation of one of the most seminal and widely read figures in the history of political thought, The Augustinian Imperative is also 'an archaeological investigation into the intellectual foundation of liberal societies.' Drawing support from Nietzsche and Foucault, Connolly argues that the Augustinian Imperative contains unethical implications: its carriers too often convert living signs that threaten their ontological self-confidence into modes of otherness to be condemned, punished, or converted in order to restore that confidence. With a lucidity and rhetorical power that makes it readily accessible, The Augustinian Imperative examines Augustine's enactment of the Imperative, explores alternative ethico-political orientations, and subsequently reveals much about the politics of morality in the modern age.
Augustine and Postmodern Thought
Augustine and Postmodern Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Augustine and Postmodern Thought write by Lieven Boeve. This book was released on 2009. Augustine and Postmodern Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On November 9-11, 2006, the Research Group 'Theology in a Postmodern Context' (K.U.Leuven) organised an expert symposium on the return of Augustine in current postmodern philosophical-theological debates. The North-African Church Father, or at least the thinking patterns or intuitions borrowed from him, are often invoked in discussions on the relation between Christian faith and the contemporary postmodern context. On the one hand, one observes the retrieval of rather premodern approaches in order to remedy the so-called (post-)modern crisis, which is said to result in nihilism, relativism, etc. For what seems to attract some theologians in Augustinian thinking is the (apparent) marriage between Greek (neo-Platonic) philosophy and Christian faith. Such a combination of premodern metaphysics and Christian faith would serve as a necessary presupposition for every legitimate theological epistemology. On the other hand, there are theologians and philosophers who are increasingly trying to reread Augustine from a postmodern stance, stressing the role of particularity, narrativity, historicity, and the decentring of subjectivity, which they see present in Augustine's approach, or from which they deconstruct Augustine's thinking. Central questions discussed during the symposium were: Are the analyses, offered by authors who are re-introducing Augustine with respect to the contemporary context, correct? To what diagnosed problems, and on what basis, do they propose Augustine as a remedy? Are their presentations of other theological and philosophical responses to the present situation correct and which 'Augustine' do they claim to represent? More fundamentally: what would a genuine Augustinian epistemology look like, and what can we gain from it? In what way can it be normative for a theological epistemology in our day? In answering these questions, the symposium focused explicitly on contemporary philosophical and theological evaluations of both modernity and postmodernity, and theological responses to them.
