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This Cambridge Companion serves as an authoritative guide to Augustine's Confessions - a literary classic and one of the most important theological/philosophical works of Late Antiquity. Bringing together new essays by leading scholars, the volume first examines the composition of the text, including its structure, genre, and intended audience. Subsequent essays explore a range of themes and concepts, such as God, creation, sin, grace, happiness, and interiority, among others. The final section of the Companion deals with its historical relevance. It provides sample essays on the reception history of the Confessions. These essays demonstrate how each generation reads the Confessions in light of current questions and circumstances, and how the text continues to remain relevant and raise new questions.
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L’ouvrage étudie grâce aux outils de la linguistique contemporaine les citations classiques présentes dans la Cité de Dieu, principalement celles de Cicéron, Salluste, Varron et Virgile, et entend montrer qu’elles participent activement à l’élaboration de la pensée. Divisée en trois temps, comme autant de rapports d’Augustin à ces textes, l’étude s’attache d’abord aux modalités d’apparition des citations, notion définie comme « coprésence de deux énoncés ». La seconde partie examine la polyphonie créée dans l’œuvre par ces voix secondes, analysées en relation étroite avec leur contexte d’accueil et de réception. Il apparaît enfin que cette « poétique de l’altérité », loin de favoriser la digression, contribue à l’élaboration d’un discours dont l’ordre garantit la vérité, et se trouve donc au cœur du dessein apologétique de l’œuvre. Ainsi nourri d’un dialogue intériorisé et théâtralisé, le texte augustinien tire profit des ambigüités de ces textes pour conclure, partiellement du moins, à l’aporie de la philosophie païenne. L’étude comporte en annexe un relevé des citations classiques dans la Cité de Dieu, insérées dans leur contexte et pourvues d’annotations philologiques.
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It has been over a decade since the first edition of The Cambridge Companion to Augustine was published. In that time, reflection on Augustine's life and labors has continued to bear much fruit: significant new studies into major aspects of his thinking have appeared, as well as studies of his life and times and new translations of his work. This new edition of the Companion, which replaces the earlier volume, has eleven new chapters, revised versions of others, and a comprehensive updated bibliography. It will furnish students and scholars of Augustine with a rich resource on a philosopher whose work continues to inspire discussion and debate.
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It is hard to overestimate the importance of the work of Augustine of Hippo, both in his own period and in the subsequent history of Western philosophy. Until the thirteenth century, when he may have had a competitor in Thomas Aquinas, he was the most important philosopher of the medieval period. Many of his views, including his theory of the just war, his account of time and eternity, his understanding of the will, his attempted resolution of the problem of evil, and his approach to the relation of faith and reason, have continued to be influential up to the present time. In this 2001 volume of specially-commissioned essays, sixteen scholars provide a wide-ranging and stimulating contribution to our understanding of Augustine, covering all the major areas of his philosophy and theology.
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