Arendt and Augustine

Introduction; Chapter 1 What Does it Mean to be Political?:  Arendt’s Augustinian Odyssey and its Significance for Theology; Chapter 2  Taxonomy and Trajectory of Desire:  Hannah Arendt’s Early Reading of Augustine; Chapter 3 Hannah Arendt’s Criticism of Augustinian ‘Worldlessness'; Chapter 4 Movements of Thinking and Loving in Augustine:  Rereading Augustine in the Light of Hannah Arendt ; Chapter 5 A Grammar for a Political Mystagogy:  Re-reading Augustine’s City of God with Arendt’s Concept of Time; Chapter 6 Mystagogy for Political Life:  Tracing the Influence of Augustine’s City of God   in Arendt’s Conception of the ‘Political’; Chapter 7 ‘Christian Harps on Babylonian Willows’:  An Augustinian Ecclesiology In Response to Arendt; Conclusion

Mark Aloysius is a postdoctoral instructor in the Department of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, USA.