Description
Book SynopsisJacques Derrida and an international group of philosophers of religion discuss Augustine in the light of postmodernism
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Postmodern Augustine John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon
Part I. After the Event
1. Composing "Circumfession" Jacques Derrida
2. Confessions and "Circumfession": A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida Moderated by Richard Kearney
Part II. Confessions and Circumfession
3. Time—for the Truth Geoffrey Bennington
4. Instances: Temporal Modes from Augustine to Derrida and Lyotard Hent de Vries
Response by Jacques Derrida
5. Shedding Tears Beyond Being: Derrida's Confession of Prayer John D. Caputo
6. Heidegger: Reader of Augustine Philippe Capelle
Response by Jacques Derrida
7. The Form of an "I" Catherine Malabou
Response by Jacques Derrida
8. Time, Evil, and Narrative: Ricoeur on Augustine Richard Kearney
9. Arendt's Augustine Michael J. Scanlon
10. Reading like Angels: Derrida and Augustine on the Book (for a History of Literature) Mark Vessey
Response by Jacques Derrida
11. Augustine's Unconfessions James J. O'Donnell
12. On Not Retracting the Unconfessed Elizabeth A. Clark
13. Why Augustine? Why Now? Jean Bethke Elshtain
Contributors
Index
