Once out of nature : Augustine on time and the body /

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"Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, and the human and transhuman condition...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Nightingale, Andrea Wilson
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430.
Augustine, > of Hippo, Saint, > 354-430
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Time > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Corps humain > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
Temps > Aspect religieux > Christianisme.
BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Sacred Sexuality.
Human body > Religious aspects > Christianity
Time > Religious aspects > Christianity
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Edenic and resurrected transhumans
  • Scattered in time
  • The unsituated self
  • Body and book
  • Unearthly bodies
  • Epilogue: "mortal interindebtedness"
  • Appendix: Augustine on Paul's notion of the flesh and the body.

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