The Confession of Augustine - (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Jean-François Lyotard (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century engages Augustine's <i>Confessions</i>, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century engages Augustine's <i>Confessions</i>, one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. Lyotard approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>" . . . this work is less a book about the Confessions as it is an insight into a twentieth century philosopher at the end of his life. . . . With prose bordering on the poetic, Lyotard entices and captivates throughout. His final insights here disclose how Augustine's own autobiography is really an omni-biography: a story every soul tells as it comes to realize, as Lyotard's last line puts it, that only at the "end of the night forever begins.""--The Review of Metaphysics<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>. . . this work is less a book about the <i>Confessions</i> as it is an insight into a twentieth century philosopher at the end of his life. . . . With prose bordering on the poetic, Lyotard entices and captivates throughout. His final insights here disclose how Augustine's own autobiography is really an omni-biography: a story every soul tells as it comes to realize, as Lyotard's last line puts it, that only at the end of the night forever begins.--<i>The Review of Metaphysics</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>The late Jean-François Lyotard was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris VIII and Professor of Humanities at Emory University. Stanford has published two other books of his: <i>Lessons on the Analytic of the Sublime</i> (1994) and <i>The Inhuman: Reflections on Time</i> (1992).
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