The Confession of Augustine

by Jean-François Lyotard

Book Overview

This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the twentieth century engages Augustine's Confessions, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing.

Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training, rearticulating Augustine's sensory universe from a vantage point imaginarily inside the confessant's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737932
• ISBN13: 9780804737937
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Oh Lord thou didst show him

This is an essential reading for those interested in the confessions. Wonderful.