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On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism (Reading Augustine) by Guillermo M. Jodra, Miles Hollingworth is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"The Reading Augustine series presents short, engaging books offering personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo's contributions to western philosophical, literary, and religious life. This two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized 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 self and the other are not disjunctive components, but mutually inclusive forces. The Augustinian Rule is a culmination of this process and also the beginning of something new: The paradigm of the monastic self as protagonist of the new, medieval worldview. Three main theoretical challenges leading to, and present in the Rule are tackled: What are the sources of our modern understanding of subjectivity? Can Ancient sources provide an alternative genealogy that resists the individualistic turn of Modernity? And can the commons be saved without suppressing individuality? Jodra seeks to prove that the synt

Who reads On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism (Reading Augustine)?

Author

Guillermo M. Jodra, Miles Hollingworth

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350303539

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Christian, Religion