Series: Reading Augustine

This work considers the fundamentally “oppositional” structure of reality, viewing Augustine as a “Christian Heraclitus” and focusing on his conception of dialectic. Matthew W. Knotts situates Augustine's anthropology within a classical Roman philosophical context, while characterising his intellect by continuous questioning. In this way, the book grounds a constructive philosophical-theological enquiry in a historical-critical study of the sources and their...

This first of a two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorised in the Augustinian Rule. A theopolitical synthesis of Antiquity, the Rule is a humble, yet extremely influential example of subjectivity production. In these volumes, Jodra argues that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical proof of a worldview in which the...