Augustine's City of God
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Augustine's City of God

A Critical Guide

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Augustine's City of God

A Critical Guide

About this book

Augustine's City of God has profoundly influenced the course of Western political philosophy, but there are few guides to its labyrinthine argumentation that hold together the delicate interplay of religion and philosophy in Augustine's thought. The essays in this volume offer a rich examination of those themes, using the central, contested distinction between a heavenly city on earthly pilgrimage and an earthly city bound for perdition to elaborate aspects of Augustine's political and moral vision. Topics discussed include Augustine's notion of the secular, his critique of pagan virtue, his departure from classical eudaimonism, his mythology of sin, his dystopian politics, his surprising attention to female bodies, his moral psychology, his valorisation of love, his critique of empire and his conception of a Christian philosophy. Together the essays advance our understanding of Augustine's most influential work and provide a rich overview of Augustinian political theology and its philosophical implications.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Augustineā€™s: CITY OF GOD
  3. Serice
  4. Dedication
  5. Title
  6. Copyright
  7. Contents
  8. Contributors
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Abbreviations
  11. Introduction
  12. CHAPTER 1 The history of the book: Augustineā€™s City of God and post-Roman cultural memory
  13. CHAPTER 2 Secularity and the saeculum
  14. CHAPTER 3 Augustineā€™s dystopia
  15. CHAPTER 4 From rape to resurrection: sin, sexual difference, and politics
  16. CHAPTER 5 Ideology and solidarity in Augustineā€™s City of God
  17. CHAPTER 6 The theater of the virtues: Augustineā€™s critique of pagan mimesis
  18. CHAPTER 7 The psychology of compassion: Stoicism in City of God 9.5
  19. CHAPTER 8 Augustineā€™s rejection of eudaimonism
  20. CHAPTER 9 Augustine on the origin of evil: myth and metaphysics
  21. CHAPTER 10 Hell and the dilemmas of intractable alienation
  22. CHAPTER 11 On the nature and worth of Christian philosophy: evidence from the City of God
  23. CHAPTER 12 Reinventing Augustineā€™s ethics: the afterlife of City of God
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index