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Augustine for the Philosophers

Augustine for the Philosophers

Name: Augustine for the Philosophers
Author: Calvin L. Troup
ISBN: 9781481300872

The Rhetor of Hippo, the "Confessions," and the Continentals

Edited by Calvin L. Troup

Series: Studies in Rhetoric & Religion

Imprint: Baylor University Press

Sales Date: 2014-07-17

255 Pages, 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.74 in

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Published: 2014-07-17

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St. Augustine of Hippo, largely considered the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, has long dominated theological conversations. Augustine's legacy as a theologian endures. However, Augustine's contributions to rhetoric and the philosophy of communication remain relatively uncharted. Augustine for the Philosophers recovers these contributions, revisiting Augustine's prominence in the work of continental philosophers who shaped rhetoric and the philosophy of communication in the twentieth century. Hannah Arendt, Albert Camus, Jacques Ellul, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Jean-François Lyotard, and Paul Ricoeur are paired with Augustine in significant conversations close to the center of their work.

Augustine for the Philosophers dares to hold Augustine's rhetoric and philosophy in dynamic tension with his Christianity, provoking serious reconsideration of Augustine, his presence in twentieth-century continental thought, and his influence upon modern rhetoric and communication studies.

PREFACE

Calvin L. Troup

Chapter 1: The Confessions and the Continentals

Calvin L. Troup

Chapter 2: Augustine and Heidegger on Acknowledging the Importance of Acknowledgment and the Orator’s Art

Michael J. Hyde

Chapter 3: Arendt and Saint Augustine: Identity Otherwise than Convention

Ronald C. Arnett

Chapter 4: Lyotard’s Augustine

David J. Depew

Chapter 5: Love, and Interpret What You Will: A Postsecular Camus-Augustine Encounter

Ramsey Eric Ramsey

Chapter 6: "A Limit that Resides in the Word": Hermeneutic Appropriations of

J ohn Arthos

Chapter 7: Self Identity and Time

Algis Mickūnas

Chapter 8: A Time to Be Born, a Time to Die: St. Augustine’s Confessions and Paul Ricoeur’s Time and Narrative

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi

Chapter 9: Ellul & Augustine on Rhetoric & Philosophy of Communication

C alvin L. Troup and Clifford G. Christians

EPILOGUE

Calvin L. Troup

Calvin L. Troup is Associate Professor and Director of the Rhetoric Ph.D. program in the Department of Communication & Rhetorical Studies at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.