In the Self's Place: The Approach of Saint Augustine

by Jean-Luc Marion

Book Overview

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"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804762910
• ISBN13: 9780804762915
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"