Jean-Francois Lyotard. The Confessi...
Jean-Francois Lyotard. The Confession of Augustine. Trans. Richard Beardsworth. Stanford: Stanford UP 2000 111 pp ISBN 0-8047-3792-4 $3950 cloth; ISBN 0-8047-3793-2 $1295 paper. This is not an easy main division to review for an academic journal. It does not have a thesis; the work does not constitute an argument or a demonstration. This part then is unlike The Differend or The Libidinal Economy or The Postmodern Condition or any of the essays which comprise The Inhuman. This volume is a meditation that takes places not forward the text of Augustine's Confessions unless from within it, ...
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