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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 world, a vantage point that reveals the intense point of conjuncture between the sensual and the spiritual, the erotic world and the mystical, being and appearance, sin and salvation. Lyotard reveals the very origins of phenomenology in Augustine's narrative, and in so doing also shows the origins of semiotics to lie there (in the explication of the Augustinian heavens as skin, as veil, as vellum).

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Confession of Augustine
• Author: Jean-Francois Lyotard
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 136
• EAN: 9780804737920
• ISBN: 0804737924
• ID: 04717069
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 293 g
• Dimensions: 203 × 127 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. August 2000

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