Troup, Calvin L.

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.

9781481300889


Augustine,-of Hippo, Saint,-354-430-Influence.
Philosophy, Modern.


Electronic books.

B655.Z7 .A94 2014

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