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Zusatztext This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself - humane and probing! full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago. Informationen zum Autor Miles Hollingworth is Research Fellow in the History of Ideas at St. John's College! Durham. His writing on Augustine has won awards from the Society of Authors (2009 Elizabeth Longford Grant for Historical Biography) and the Royal Society of Literature (2009 Jerwood Award for Non-Fiction). He is the author of The Pilgrim City: St. Augustine of Hippo and his Innovation in Political Thought (also published by Bloomsbury)! which was shortlisted for the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone History Book Prize. Klappentext An outstanding new examination of St. Augustine's political philosophy and of its bearing upon the roots of Western civilization. This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself - humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago. -- Rowan Williams Here is an outstanding new intellectual biography of Augustine of Hippo, written at once for scholars and students but also for the huge number of intelligent lay readers for whom Augustine is a towering figure in the history of Western civilisation. Zusammenfassung An outstanding new examination of St. Augustine's political philosophy and of its bearing upon the roots of Western civilization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface \ Acknowledgements \ Abbreviations \ Chronology of Augustine's life - 1. Out of Africa \ 2. Augustine's intellectual milieu \ 3. Augustine's remarks on his parents \ 4. Reflections on infancy \ 5. Traumas of initiation into the Earthly City \ 6. Cicero and a sense of purpose \ 7. Manichaeism \ 8. On the deportment of death! love and grief \ 9. Christian conversion and reflections on the supernatural \ 10. To write against self-consciousness and its effects \ 11. Last days and reflections on the style of man \ Notes \ Index ...
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Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Chronology of Augustine's life - 1. Out of Africa 2. Augustine's intellectual milieu 3. Augustine's remarks on his parents 4. Reflections on infancy 5. Traumas of initiation into the Earthly City 6. Cicero and a sense of purpose 7. Manichaeism 8. On the deportment of death, love and grief 9. Christian conversion and reflections on the supernatural 10. To write against self-consciousness and its effects 11. Last days and reflections on the style of man Notes Index
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This is a book whose style and feel are really worthy of Augustine himself - humane and probing, full of telling metaphor and seriousness about the strangeness of human experience. It is capable of doing for a new generation a great deal of what Peter Brown's epochal biography did half a century ago. Rowan Williams
