The Confession of Augustine by Jeanfranois Lyotard
This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century engages Augustine's Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training.
". . this work is less a book about the Confessions as it is an insight into a twentieth century philosopher at the end of his life. . . . With prose bordering on the poetic, Lyotard entices and captivates throughout. His final insights here disclose how Augustine's own autobiography is really an omni-biography: a story every soul tells as it comes to realize, as Lyotard's last line puts it, that only at the "end of the night forever begins.""—The Review of Metaphysics
The late Jean-François Lyotard was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and Professor of Humanities at Emory University. Stanford has published two other books of his: Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime (1994) and The Inhuman: Reflections on Time (1992).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780804737937 |
| ISBN 10 | 0804737932 |
| Title | The Confession of Augustine |
| Author | Jeanfranois Lyotard |
| Series | Cultural Memory In The Present |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Stanford University Press |
| Year published | 2000-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 136 |
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