Augustine: The Confessions

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CUP Archive, 1993 M09 23 - 110 páginas
When Augustine wrote his Confessions in the last years of the fourth century, he was just over forty and had abandoned a successful career for a life of prayer and study. He interpreted his past life as a search for God, in which understanding and commitment had been frustrated by wrong education, mistaken ambition, sexual desire and sinful nature. Some readers are inspired by his brilliance and devotion, others think he misread his own past. This book discusses the transformation of Augustine's own life and of the late Roman world, the structure, style and purpose of the Confessions, and the problems of rhetoric and truth posed by Augustine's account of himself. It concludes with a brief overview of the influence of this landmark text in the history of European culture.

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Introduction
1
describing a life
37
True Confessions? Narrative and memory
54
Multiple readings and exegesis
61
Augustines conversion
67
philosophy
73
Hearing the Confessions
79
Augustine at Carthage 8883
83
Guide to further reading
107
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