Augustine And Postmodernism: Confession And Circumfession (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)

TOC......Page 8
acknowledgments......Page 10
Introduction: The Postmodern Augustine......Page 14
1. Composing “Circumfession”......Page 32
2. Confessions and “Circumfession”: A Roundtable Discussion withJacques Derrida......Page 41
3. Time—for the Truth......Page 66
4. Instances: Temporal Modes from Augustine to Derrida and Lyotard......Page 81
Response by Jacques Derrida......Page 101
5. Shedding Tears Beyond Being: Derrida’s Confession of Prayer......Page 108
6. Heidegger: Reader of Augustine......Page 128
Response by Jacques Derrida......Page 137
7. The Form of an “I”......Page 140
Response by Jacques Derrida......Page 151
8. Time, Evil, and Narrative: Ricoeur on Augustine......Page 157
9. Arendt’s Augustine......Page 172
10. Reading like Angels: Derrida and Augustine on the Book(for a History of Literature)......Page 186
Response by Jacques Derrida......Page 221
11. Augustine’s Unconfessions......Page 225
12. On Not Retracting the Unconfessed......Page 235
13. Why Augustine? Why Now?......Page 257
contributors......Page 270
index......Page 272