... response to Augustine. Like Augustine, Knausgaard explores the care that binds us to others and how the experience of time cuts through every moment. But while Augustine seeks to turn us toward eternity, Knausgaard turns us back toward our finite lives as the heart of everything that matters. The animating...

... on the eloquence displayed by the authors of the Hebrew scriptures, “men who enjoy the highest authority and a full measure of divine inspi- ration,” Augustine could write, without any knowledge of Longinus, “They spoke in their own peculiar style [with the highest possible eloquence], and it would...

... omnes maximae aedificationis et instructionis charisma transmisit. I therefore recommend to you all of the Fathers, and especially Father Augustine. He was unable to convert Julian the Pelagian or Faustus the Manichaean by his words and his labor to the right faith, but, nonetheless, he did not shirk...

... that God speaks in parables (24:38–40). As in Christian traditions, going back to Augustine and earlier, literal meaning is viewed as existing alongside, and often as the foundation of, other levels of meaning. Through the twentieth century, the humanities have undergone many...

... like the archive of the best that has been thought and said: its orientation is toward the past, toward that which has already been established as knowledge. Teaching, accordingly, is akin to that Pla- tonic view of all knowledge as outlined in Meno: the recovery of a memory. As Augustine...

.... It was Augustine, according to Auerbach, who gave man something to hope for in the form of Christ’s story, communicated as ‘‘the idea of a personal God in such a way as to preserve ‘‘the fundamentally European determination not to abolish reality by speculation, not to take flight into transcendence...

... as ancient as thou art new; late I learnt to love thee. —Norman Brown, translating St. Augustine's Confessions into the figure of Love's Body Bob Dylan once told a probing Rolling Stone interviewer, Mikal Gilmore (2012), when his late-style 2012 album Tempest had just come out, wherein he once...

... members trampling on each other as they crowd in for a better look, this passage might, at first, seem like a reference to book 8 of Augustine's Confessions , where Augustine's young friend Alypius fails to maintain his stoic composure when he is swept up in the excitement of a gladiatorial death match...

... of Demosthenes’s judicial orations, the Greek prefix translates into the Latin contra, as in many Roman speeches and works, such as Augustine’s Contra Academicos (Against the Academi- cians, one of several “Contra X’s” by Augustine); and it is also translated (using another Greek preposition...

... hermeneutical philology and allowed him thus to read texts such as those by Augustine or Dante from the point of view of the author, whose relationship to his age was an organic and integral one, a kind of self- making within the context of the specific dynamics of society at a very pre- cise moment in its...

... of life may be clearest in autobiographical writings (such as Augustine’s and Rousseau’s). But a question can similarly be posed as to whether biography ought to limit itself to the material contents of a life or whether it can risk judgment on what is essential in the existence of a per- son...

..., but a great one, in the strictest technical sense. Scholars and students will still be wearing out Grafton / Error Messages 195 the library binding and disfiguring the worn pages of his massive, meticu- lous, humane edition of the Confessions of Augustine a century...

... of learning crucial both to the transmission and creation of knowledge, of knowledge linked at many points to Greek philosophy. Rome extended many of Greece's intellectual models, merging them eventually with the Christianization of Europe. Augustine (354–430 CE) was a brilliant synthesizer of Christian...

... of opposites, or as Augustine said, a vital death. Symbols, whatever other meaning they may have, also always embody the speaker's body in some aspects. In this reborn consciousness symbols aren't ever to be severed from the many things they mean, and particularly from the body; that severing is the work...

... the fourfold to a dyadic set, with the first half being the literal sense of a text, and items two, three, and four together constituting the ‘‘spiritual’’ interpretation of the letter. Augustine would have seen the method in that way, recognizing paradoxically that the literal is the most subtle part...

..., and de Rougement. They believed in the yearning of homo religiosus described by fathers of Western theology, such as Paul and Augustine, who speak of man’s soul not resting unless it “reposeth in Thee.” This longing, they argued, was so strong that it imposed internal limits on Enlightenment...

... the repeated basis of particular ironic self-­subversions in the narrative of the life/work. So whether one reads Saint Augustine’s Confessions or Rous- seau’s, this autobiographical conventional imperative prevails and rises to the sublime level of a self-­sustaining myth of identity. What Spanos is here...

... for politics). And while the shape of 5. Critchley has no qualms in dealing with Paul’s and Augustine’s sense of demand as a matter of ethics and not theology. Altieri / Poststructuralist Ontology 237 this demand is compatible with heteronomy because the demand does...

...,12 Augustine’s Confes- sions, and various other places and times. Masturbation emerges as a sin in relation to fornication, adultery, debauchery, rape, molestation, sodomy, incest, and bestiality (A, 172). Foucault sums up the development as a politi- cal anatomy of the body, a moral physiology...

...” (he had converted to Christianity as a condition of his marriage to Louise Gély in 1793). But given the mix-and-match nature of “My Father”—Diogenes, St. Augustine, Michelangelo, and the English poet Ernest Dowson are all noted as being “morally repugnant,” while “Jesus is the real thing...