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La Confesión de Agustín

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La virtuosa creencia que proclama que la verdad transforma la vida resulta esclarecedora si se la pone en relación con la confesión. A san Agustín, creador de la confesión como género literario, le ocurrió, en efecto -tal cual se aprecia en su célebre obra-, que la conversión de que fue sujeto transcurrió por una travesía cuyo hito crucial era, precisamente, el acto de confesarse delante de un testigo que se le iba revelando como un dios que le constituía como su parte más íntima.
Así lo vio también Jean-Francois Lyotard, quien en los últimos años de su vida escribió una serie de glosas y comentarios a las Confesiones del obispo de Hipona con vistas a la redacción de un libro que no llegó a terminar, porque la muerte le sobrevino antes. Esos textos, dos ensayos y una decena de fragmentos, componen este volumen, La Confesión de Agustín. En ellos, Lyotard sigue esa travesía del santo, admirado de comprobar cómo su escritura confesional es una amalgama de voces en que se imbrican lo pagano y lo sacro para cantar el misterioso recoveco de la experiencia mística. Partiendo de los Libros X, XIII y VIII de las Confesiones, Lyotard analiza con un lenguaje lleno de juegos y de sutileza intelectual la cadena de paradojas que se originan en la revelación de ese ser interior al que Agustín describe como la prueba de la presencia de Dios en el alma. Si san Agustín dirige a Dios sus confesiones, puede decirse que en este libro, y ya próximo a su muerte, el filósofo postmoderno toma a san Agustín como su confesor.

152 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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Jean-François Lyotard

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Jean-François Lyotard (DrE, Literature, University of Paris X, 1971) was a French philosopher and literary theorist. He is well-known for his articulation of postmodernism after the late 1970s and for his analysis of the impact of postmodernity on the human condition.

He went to primary school at the Paris Lycées Buffon and Louis-le-Grand and later began studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. After graduation, in 1950, he took a position teaching philosophy in Constantine in French East Algeria. He married twice: in 1948 to Andrée May, with whom he had two daughters, and for a second time in 1993 to the mother of his son, who was born in 1986.

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October 30, 2020
Một tác phẩm cực kỳ khó đọc nhưng đầy suy tư của thánh Augustine. Xuyên suốt tác phẩm là những ký ức của thánh nhân về quá khứ đầy tội lỗi của mình, rồi được hoán cải và soi sáng. Bao trùm lấy cuốn sách này là một tâm hồn khiêm hạ, luôn hướng lòng về Đấng Tối Cao, vì thế, người đọc luôn cảm thấy đang say sưa trong dòng cảm xúc của thánh nhân.
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January 2, 2024
I'm pretty sure going through Lyotard is one of the only ways I can stomach Augustine: "... the divine solicitor, the judge wonders.... What game is he playing with me, pleading one hundred percent guilty? Trying to snatch some sympathy from me."
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January 20, 2019
Jean-Francois Lyotard nije uspio dovršiti Augustinovu ispovijest. Ovo izdanje predstavlja polovinu knjige koju je namjeravao napisati. Samo bilješke prikupljene u zadnjih nekoliko godina daju naslutiti razmjere koncipiranog djela.
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