Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
11 - Memory, Eternity, and Time
from Part II - Main Themes and Topics
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The Cambridge Companion to Augustine’s Confessions
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part I Circumstances of Composition
- Part II Main Themes and Topics
- 4 Aversion and Conversion
- 5 Creation and Recreation
- 6 Sin and Concupiscence
- 7 Grace
- 8 God
- 9 Happiness and Friendship
- 10 Love, Will, and the Intellectual Ascents
- 11 Memory, Eternity, and Time
- 12 Philosophy
- 13 Pride and Humility
- 14 Soul, Self, and Interiority
- Part III Reception and Reading Strategies
- A Bibliographical Note
- Index
- Other Titles in the Series (continued from page ii)
- References
Summary
Just as his narration in the “Confessions” has no other source than the bottomless and treacherous memory, Augustine has no other way of dealing with time than human speech. Both memory and speech attempt to concentrate time into a kind of unity, which is enabled by the extentionless unity of the eternity where the temporal processes are included in an atemporal way.
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Hoffmann, P. “Temps et étérnité dans le livre XI des Confessions: Augustin, Plotin, Porphyre et saint Paul.” Revue des Études Augustiniennes 63 (2017), 31–79.Google Scholar
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Mesch, W. Reflektierte Gegenwart. Eine Studie über Zeit und Ewigkeit bei Platon, Aristoteles, Plotin und Augustinus. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2003.Google Scholar
Mourant, J. A. Saint Augustine on Memory. Saint Augustine Lecture Series. Villanova: Villanova University Press, 1980.Google Scholar
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Teske, R. J. “Augustine’s Philosophy of Memory.” The Cambridge Companion to Augustine, ed. Stump, E.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, 148–158.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Teske, R. J. Paradoxes of Time in Saint Augustine. Aquinas Lecture 1996. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 1998.Google Scholar
Von Herrmann, F.-W. Augustinus und die phänomenologische Frage nach der Zeit. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 1992 (English translation by F. Van Fleteren and J. Hackett [Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 2008]).Google Scholar
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