Robert J. O'Connell

Broschiertes Buch

St. Augustine's Confessions

The Odyssey of Soul

Beschreibung

When this book was originally published in 1969, it added fuel to a controversy (sparked by the author in a previous work) that continues unabated to the present day.Now, available for the first time in a paperback edition, it offers a new generation of readers a detailed exposition of the Confessions, showing how the Plotinian view of man as a fallen soul is present in this work and, furthermore, that it is the key to its interpretation.

Autor

Robert J. O'Connell, S. J. was a Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. His has five publications on St. Augustine, as well as several studies of Plato, William James, and Teilhard de Chardin. In 2015 he established the O'Connell established the O'Connell Initiative at Fordham, a forum for intellectual exploration, that brought together scholars of every aspect of capitalism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• 2. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 365g
• ISBN-13: 9780823212651
• ISBN-10: 0823212653
• Artikelnr.: 22024322