{"product_id":"augustine-our-contemporary-9780268103453","title":"Augustine Our Contemporary","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the massive literature on the idea of the self, the Augustinian influence has often played a central role. The volume \u003ci\u003eAugustine Our Contemporary\u003c\/i\u003e, starting from the compelling first essay by David W. Tracy, addresses this influence from the Middle Ages to modernity and from a rich variety of perspectives, including theology, philosophy, history, and literary studies. The collected essays in this volume all engage Augustine and the Augustinian legacy on notions of selfhood, interiority, and personal identity. Written by prominent scholars, the essays demonstrate a connecting thread: Augustine is a thinker who has proven his contemporaneity in Western thought time and time again. He has been the contemporary of thinkers ranging from Eriugena to Luther to Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida. His influence has been dominant in certain eras, and in others he has left traces and fragments that, when stitched together, create a unique impression of the presentness of Christian sel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This original collection of essays by stellar authors in the field addresses the paradoxical question that animates the best of philosophical and philological inquiry into the future of the religious and theological past: To what current uses can the archive and apparatus of early Christian, patristic, and medieval thought be put, without yielding to anachronistic, myopic, and fundamentally narcissistic appropriations that are the standing temptation of scholars of all generations? Susan E. Schreiner and Willemien Otten frame the project in the most stringent and compelling terms. Their further organization of the material is effective, and the individual articles are well researched, steeped in the thorough analysis and interpretation of primary sources while paying minute attention to the voluminous existing scholarship on Augustine, those who influence him, and those whom he would influence in turn.\" —Hent de Vries, Paulette Goddard Professor of the Humanities, New York University, and director, School of Criticism and Theory at Cornell University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Willemien Otten and Susan E. Schreiner's volume demonstrates how Augustine's pioneering struggles with the self provided fertile ground for subsequent Western intellectuals to come to their own conclusions about the essence of the human experience. Readers will be surprised at each turn as venerable themes resurface century after century, invested with new meanings and bearings. Rather than identifying a stable, easily recognized, human core, these essays return the issue to the reader in a most fruitful way, where the self remains an ongoing site of questioning whose boundaries are far from easy to determine.\" —Paul Kolbet, Yale Divinity School\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The present volume develops several specific themes within the broad Augustinian legacy and thus will be helpful to scholars.” —\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The title of this extraordinary book, \u003ci\u003eAugustine Our Contemporary: Examining the Self in Past and Present\u003c\/i\u003e, conceals the fact that it is editors’ Willemien Otten and Susan E. Schreiner’s homage to David Tracy, long time Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School and the Committee for Social Thought.” —\u003ci\u003eReading Religion\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Readily engaging an impressive range of Western thought, from the more obvious connections with classic philosophers and Augustine’s contemporaries to twentieth- century philosophy, it is perhaps no small surprise that the “self” appears as an overarching theme.... Such essays invite the reader to find fresh approaches to seemingly outdated concepts and emphasize the utility of engaging with the past in contemplating the present.\" —\u003cem\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Susan E. Schreiner, Augustine Our Contemporary\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. David W. Tracy, Augustine Our Contemporary: The Overdetermined, Incomprehensible Self\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Bernard McGinn, \u003ci\u003eSemper agens\/Semper quietus\u003c\/i\u003e: Notes on the History of an Augustinian Theme\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Vincent Carraud, \u003ci\u003ePondus meum amor meus\u003c\/i\u003e, or Contradictory Self-Love\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Willemien Otten, The Open Self: Augustine and the Early Medieval Ethics of Order\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Adriaan T. Peperzak, Teachers Without and Within\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. David C. Steinmetz, Luther and Augustine on Romans 9\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Jean-Luc Marion, St. Augustine, or the Impossibility of Any \u003ci\u003eEgo Cogito\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. W. Clark Gilpin, The Augustinian Strain of Piety: Theology and Autobiography in American History\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. William Schweiker, The Saint and the Humanities\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Franklin I. Gamwell, The Sources of Temptation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and Political Theology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Fred Lawrence, \u003ci\u003eCor ad cor loquitur\u003c\/i\u003e: Augustine’s Influence on Heidegger and Lonergan\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Françoise Meltzer, Ruins and Time\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400749523287,"sku":"9780268103453","price":49.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/augustine-our-contemporary-9780268103453","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}