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Once Out of Nature
Andrea Nightingale
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Description for Once Out of Nature
Hardcover. Augustine was the first theologian to write an autobiographical book dealing with the themes of sin and salvation, time and eternity. This title reconsiders his conception of embodiment, contributing to conversations involving scholars working in late antiquity, literary critics, philosophers, and ecological thinkers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: HPCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 238 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
Augustine was the first theologian to write an autobiographical book dealing with the themes of sin and salvation, time and eternity. "Once Out of Nature" broadly reconsiders his conception of embodiment, a crucial but poorly understood theme of his work. Andrea Nightingale uses embodiment to illuminate a set of problems much larger than the body itself - this notion, she demonstrates, is the key to understanding Augustine's accounts of time and the human place in the earthly world. Augustine offered the first exploration of the subjective experience of time in Western thinking, claiming that the human psyche always stretches away ... Read more
Augustine was the first theologian to write an autobiographical book dealing with the themes of sin and salvation, time and eternity. "Once Out of Nature" broadly reconsiders his conception of embodiment, a crucial but poorly understood theme of his work. Andrea Nightingale uses embodiment to illuminate a set of problems much larger than the body itself - this notion, she demonstrates, is the key to understanding Augustine's accounts of time and the human place in the earthly world. Augustine offered the first exploration of the subjective experience of time in Western thinking, claiming that the human psyche always stretches away ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226585758
SKU
V9780226585758
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About Andrea Nightingale
Andrea Nightingale is professor of classics and comparative literature at Stanford University and the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of Spectacles of Truth in Classical Greek Philosophy: "Theoria" in its Cultural Context, among other books.
Reviews for Once Out of Nature
"This is a beautifully written, engaging, and original book that demonstrates Augustine's complex views on the human body. Once Out of Nature is a pleasure." (Alexander Nehamas, Princeton University)"