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Jean-Luc Marion - In the Self's Place - 9780804762908 - V9780804762908
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In the Self's Place

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Description for In the Self's Place hardcover. In the Self's Place is a phenomenological reading of Augustine that engages with modern and postmodern analyses of Augustinian philosophy. Translator(s): Kosky, Jeffrey. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRCM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 712. Weight in Grams: 680.

In the Self's Place is an original phenomenological reading of Augustine that considers his engagement with notions of identity in Confessions. Using the Augustinian experience of confessio, Jean-Luc Marion develops a model of selfhood that examines this experience in light of the whole of the Augustinian corpus. Towards this end, Marion engages with noteworthy modern and postmodern analyses of Augustine's most "experiential" work, including the critical commentaries of Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. Marion ultimately concludes that Augustine has preceded postmodernity in exploring an excess of the self over and beyond itself, and in using this alterity of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804762908
SKU
V9780804762908
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99-50

About Jean-Luc Marion
Jean-Luc Marion is Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Professor of Modern Philosophy and Metaphysics at the University of Paris IV (Sorbonne), and a member of the Académie Française. Among his books to have been translated into English are Being Given (Stanford, 2002) and The ... Read more

Reviews for In the Self's Place
"Jean-Luc Marion's new book is a feast that should be savored by anyone with an interest in either the thought of Saint Augustine or in Marion's phenomenological philosophy . . . I think it would be difficult to speak too highly of Marion's achievement in this book . . . In the Self's Place is a landmark, advancing every position ... Read more

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