Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 261 Seiten).
ISBN:
978-1-139-01414-4
Series Statement:
Cambridge critical guides
Content:
Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications
Note:
The history of the book : Augustine's City of God and post-Roman cultural memory
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Secularity and the saeculum
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Augustine's dystopia
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From rape to resurrection : sin, sexual difference, and politics
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Ideology and solidarity in Augustine's City of God
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The theater of the virtues : Augustine's critique of pagan mimesis
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The psychology of compassion : Stoicism in City of God 9.5
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Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism
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Augustine on the origin of evil : myth and metaphysics
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Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation
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On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy : evidence from the City of God
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Reinventing Ausustine's ethics : the afterlife of City of God
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-0-521-19994-0
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-107-46318-9
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
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Philosophy
Keywords:
Heiliger 354-430 De civitate dei Augustinus, Aurelius
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Kommentar
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139014144
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https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139014144
