Augustine for the Philosophers : The Rhetor of Hippo, the Confessions, and the Continentals.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (256 pages)
- Studies in Rhetoric and Religion Series .
- Studies in Rhetoric and Religion Series .
Cover -- Half Title Page, Title Page, copyright, dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Confessions and the Continentals -- 2. Augustine and Heidegger on Acknowledging the importance of Acknowledgment and the orator's Art -- 3. Arendt and Saint Augustine: Identity Otherwise Than Convention -- 4. Lyotard's Augustine -- 5. Love, and Interpret What you Will: A Postsecular Camus-Augustine Encounter -- 6. "A Limit That Resides in the Word": Hermeneutic Appropriations of Augustine -- 7. Self-Identity and Time -- 8. A Time to Be Born, a Time to Die: Saint Augustine's Confessions and Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative -- 9. Ellul and Augustine on Rhetoric and Philosophy of Communication -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index of People and Places -- Subject index.
St. Augustine of Hippo--theologian, rhetorician, philosopher.