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In the Self's Place

The Approach of Saint Augustine

  • Hardback
  • 448 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

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"In the Self's Place" is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in "Confessions." Using the Augustinian experience of "confessio," Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian corpus. Towards this end, Marion engages with noteworthy modern and postmodern analyses of Augustine's most "experiential" work, including the critical commentaries of Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Marion ultimately concludes that Augustine has preceded postmodernity in exploring an excess of the self over and beyond itself, and in using this alterity of the self to itself, as a driving force for creative relations with God, the world, and others. This reading establishes striking connections between accounts of selfhood across the fields of contemporary philosophy, literary studies, and Augustine's early Christianity.
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  • Author

    Jean-Luc Marion

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    October 2012

  • Weight

    591g

  • Page Count

    448

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 2.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804762915

  • ISBN-10

    0804762910

  • Eden Code

    4038914

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