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
John 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
Calvin L. Troup and Clifford G. Christians
EPILOGUE
Calvin L. Troup
