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Eternity's Ennui: Temporality, Perseverance and Voice in Augustine and Western Literature: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, cartea 190

Autor M.B. Pranger
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2010
Augustine articulates temporality as focus rather than duration. It encompasses the shift from the future through the present to the past. Yet this a-causal, free-floating concept of time has never been applied to the shape of Augustine’s own narrative in the Confessions, or to that other vintage Augustinian problem: predestination. This book examines Augustinian temporality by experimentally projecting it onto modern(ist) authors (Kleist, Henry James, Kafka, Beckett) who are less dependent on sequential narrative and more concerned with the fragility and sustainability of voice in time. Processed through this mill of unfamiliar readings, the poignant problem of Augustinian time is how focus can account for digression. How can one deal with an unfathomably brief notion of time while eternity’s longueur hovers over it?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004189362
ISBN-10: 900418936X
Pagini: 424
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 mm
Greutate: 0 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Brill's Studies in Intellectual History


Cuprins

Acknowledgements
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: Rambling

1.Time, Focus and Narrative in Augustine’s Confessions
1.1.Introduction
1.2.Meijering, Sorbabji, Ricoeur
1.3.Time, narrative and emplotment
1.4.Long expectation, long memory

2.The Unfathomability of Sincerity: on the Seriousness of Augustine’s Confessions
2.1.Pawn, lease and promise: Stanley Cavell and the arrogation of voice
2.2.John Henry Newman: conversion and the exclusion of the non-serious
2.3.Augustine’s Confessions: the arrogation of voice and the promise of conversion
2.4.The promise of conversion and the return of voice
2.5.Jokes and poetry

3.The Gift of Destiny and the Language of Dispossession
3.1.Introduction: the aporias of Augustinian predestination
3.2.The holy sinner
3.3.Calvin’s decretum horribile
3.4.The language of possession: Calvin continued
3.5.The language of dispossession: Dante on sloth as sin
3.6.The language of dispossession: Henry James
3.7.Dante’s cantos on the moon and Belaqua’s lobster

4.The Sustainability of Voice
4.1.The epiphany of Scripture
4.2.A grief observed
4.3.Politics and finitude
4.4.The human condition as nature morte

5. Eternity’s Ennui
5.1.Distentio animi and the hinterland of grace
5.2. The logic of terror: jokes and poetry revisited
5.3.The desire to become an Indian
5.4.Late style: sero te amavi
5.5.Non-perseverance and the boundaries of love’s lateness
5.6.Endgame

Bibliography
Index of Names

Notă biografică

M.B. Pranger, Ph.D. (1975), University of Amsterdam, is Professor emeritus at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. He has published extensively on the literary aspects of monasticism (Bernard of Clairvaux and the Shape of Monastic Thought (Brill, 1994), The Artificiality of Christianity (Stanford, 2003).

Recenzii

"Engaged with both the philosophy and the theology of Augustine’s thought, without being beholden to either discipline [...] it is an incredibly cultivated, capacious book [...] Pranger is bringing Augustine into conversation with Proust, into conversation with Samuel Beckett, into conversation with Henry James. And he also comes back to music. Every now and then he engages the most unbelievably revealing metaphor from music."

Catherine Conybeare, "The Best Augustine Books", on https://fivebooks.com/best-books/augustine-catherine-conybeare

"Pranger has written a dense and difficult book of striking originality [...] this is a book that richly deserves to transform the disciplines it so tactfully subverts."
James Wetzel, The Journal of Religion Vol. 92, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 143-145.