
Parting Knowledge
Essays after Augustine
James Wetzel(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 8. August 2013
304 pages
978-1-62189-787-3 (ISBN)
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There are forms of knowing that seem either to come from a parting or to require one. Paradigmatically in Genesis, Adam parts from God in order to join in knowledge with his partner, the flesh of his flesh, and the result is a bereft but not unpromising knowledge, looking like a labor of love. Saint Augustine famously--some would say infamously--reads the Genesis paradigm of knowing as a story of original sin, where parting is both damnable and disfiguring and reuniting a matter of incomprehensible grace. Roughly half the essays in this collection engage directly with Augustine's theological animus and follow his thinking into self-division, perversity of will, grief, conversion, and the aspiration for transcendence. The remaining ones, more concerned with grace than with sin, bring an animus more distantly Augustinian to the preemption of forgiveness and the persistence of hell, morality and its limits, sexual piety, strange beauty, and a philosophy that takes in confession. The common pull of all the essays is towards the imperfection in self-knowledge--a place of disfigurement perhaps, but also a nod to transformation.
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English
Place of publication
Eugene
United States
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978-1-62189-787-3 (9781621897873)
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James Wetzel is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University and the first permanent holder of the Augustinian Chair in the Thought of St. Augustine. He is the author of Augustine and the Limits of Virtue (1992) and Augustine: A Guide for the Perplexed (2010), and the editor of Augustine's City of God: A Critical Guide.
Content
- Title Page
- Provenance of the Essays and Abstracts
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part 1: Groundwork
- Chapter 1: Agony in the Garden
- Chapter 2: Crisis Mentalities
- Chapter 3: The Alleged Importance of Free Choice
- Chapter 4: Trappings of Woe
- Chapter 5: Prodigal Heart
- Chapter 6: Life in Unlikeness
- Chapter 7: A Short History of Philosophy
- Part 2: Cultivation
- Chapter 8: Some Thoughts on the Anachronism of Forgiveness
- Chapter 9: A Meditation on Hell
- Chapter 10: Myth and Moral Philosophy
- Chapter 11: The Original Sin
- Dialogical Postscript
- Chapter 12: From Aphrodite to God the Father
- Chapter 13: Wittgenstein's Augustine
- Chapter 14: What the Saints Know
- Works Cited
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