Augustine's Confessions: A Critical Guide - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1316511103 ISBN 13 : 9781316511107

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2026

Synopsis

Augustine's Confessions, written between AD 394 and 400, is an autobiographical work which outlines his youth and his conversion to Christianity. It is one of the great texts of Late Antiquity, the first Western Christian autobiography ever written, and it retains its fascination for philosophers, theologians, historians, and scholars of religious studies today. This Critical Guide engages with Augustine's creative appropriation of the work of his predecessors in theology generally, in metaphysics, and in philosophy as therapy for the soul, and reframes a much discussed - but still poorly understood - passage from the Confessions with respect to recent philosophy. The volume represents the best of contemporary scholarship on Augustine's Confessions from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, and builds on existing scholarship to develop new insights, explore underappreciated themes, and situate Augustine in the thought of his own day as well as ours.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thomas Williams is Isabelle A. and Henry D. Martin Professor of Medieval Philosophy at Georgetown University. He is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics (Cambridge, 2018), and his recent publications include a translation of Augustine's Confessions (2019) and Anselm: A Very Short Introduction (2022).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1316511103
• ISBN 13: 9781316511107
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 258
• Éditeur: Williams Thomas
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Cambridge University Press; https://www.cambridge.org/; ; Via Honduras,15; Pomezia; Italia; 71; Italie