Arendt and Augustine: A Pedagogy of Desiring and Thinking for Politics

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Preface
	I
	II
	III
	IV
	Notes
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
	a. Augustine
	b. Hannah Arendt
Introduction
	Note
Chapter 1: What Does It Mean to Be Political?: Arendt’s Augustinian Odyssey and Its Significance for Theology
	1.1 Introduction
	1.2 Homo Spatialis and Homo Temporalis
		1.2.1 Homo Temporalis
		1.2.2 Homo Spatio-temporalis
	1.3 The Theological Significance of the Political
	Notes
Chapter 2: A Taxonomy and Trajectory of Desire: Hannah Arendt’s Early Reading of Augustine
	2.1 Introduction
	2.2 A Taxonomy and Trajectory of Desire
		2.2.1 Craving (Appetitus) in Its Future Orientation
		2.2.2 Desire and Memory in Its Orientation to the Past
		2.2.3 Social Life
	2.3 Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 3: Hannah Arendt’s Criticism of Augustinian ‘Worldlessness’
	3.1 Introduction
	3.2 ‘Worldlessness’ in The Origins of Totalitarianism
	3.3 Epistemological ‘Worldlessness’ and the Reflexivity of Thinking
	3.4 Volitional ‘Worldlessness’ in Christian Love
	3.5 What Is Epistemological and Volitional ‘Worldlessness’?
	3.6 Amor Mundi
	Notes
Chapter 4: Movements of Thinking and Loving in Augustine: Rereading Augustine in the Light of Hannah Arendt
	4.1 Introduction
	4.2 Critical Apparatus
	4.3 Two Models of Answering the Question on Standpoint
		4.3.1 Static Model – Interpreting Uti and Frui
		4.3.2 Diastolic Movement – Movements of Knowing and Desiring/ Loving in De Trinitate
	4.4 Critical Evaluation
	Notes
Chapter 5: A Grammar for a Political Mystagogy: Re-reading Augustine’s City of God with Arendt’s Concept of Time
	5.1 Introduction
	5.2 Refining the Critical Apparatus
	5.3 Politics as ‘Theologically Neutral’: Robert Markus’ Saeculum
	5.4 Applying the Critical Apparatus Theologically
	5.5 In, But Not of the World
	5.6 The Two Cities as an Improvisation in Time
	Notes
Chapter 6: Mystagogy for Political Life: Tracing the Influence of Augustine’s City of God in Arendt’s Conception of the ‘Political’
	6.1 Introduction
	6.2 Interpretive Framework
	6.3 Three Models of Arendt\'s Reception of Augustine
		6.3.1 Inverted Augustinianism
		6.3.2 Transposed Augustinianism
		6.3.3 Worldly Augustinianism
	6.4 Mystagogy as Initiation into Mystery
	Notes
Chapter 7: ‘Christian Harps on Babylonian Willows’: An Augustinian Ecclesiology in Response to Arendt
	7.1 Introduction
	7.2 Loneliness as the Limit-Situation of Thinking
	7.3 Augustine on the Good Samaritan
	7.4 Learning to Think from the Standpoint of Another in the Saeculum
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
Index