Augustine's City of God

Name: Augustine's City of God
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ISBN: 9780521199940

ISBN-10: 0521199948

ISBN-13: 9780521199940

Edition: 2012

Authors: James Wetzel

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Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising…

Book details

List price: $129.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/4/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 280
Size: 5.91" wide x 9.09" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188



Introduction: a tangle of two cities




The history of the book: Augustine's City of God and post-Roman cultural memory




Secularity and the Saeculum




Dystopia: Augustine's city of Gaud




It's a matter of worship: ideology and solidarity




The politics of love




From rape to resurrection: sin, sexual difference, and politics




The theatre of the virtues: Augustine's critique of Pagan mimesis




The psychology of compassion: a reading of City of God 9.5




Augustine's rejection of eudaimonism




Augustine on the origin of evil: myth and metaphysics




Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation




Divine providence and confession




On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy




Reinventing Augustine's ethics: the afterlife of City of God