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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Chicago Pr
Publication date
May 30, 2011
Pages
244
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780226585758
ISBN-10
0226585751
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.50 in.
Weight
1.10 lbs.
Original list price
$43.00
Other format details
university press
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Summaries and Reviews
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Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustineâs theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustineâs conception of temporality, eternity, and the human and transhuman condition.
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In Nightingaleâs view, the notion of embodiment illuminates a set of problems much larger than the body itself: it captures the human experience of being an embodied soul dwelling on earth. In Augustineâs writings, humans live both in and out of natureâexiled from Eden and punished by mortality, they are âresident aliensâ on earth. While the human body is subject to earthly time, the human mind is governed by what Nightingale calls psychic time. For the human psyche always stretches away from the present momentâwhere the physical body persistsâinto memories and expectations. As Nightingale explains, while the body is present in the here and now, the psyche cannot experience self-presence. Thus, for Augustine, the human being dwells in two distinct time zones, in earthly time and in psychic time. The human self, then, is a moving target. Adam, Eve, and the resurrected saints, by contrast, live outside of time and nature: these transhumans dwell in an everlasting present.
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Nightingale connects Augustineâs views to contemporary debates about transhumans and suggests that Augustineâs thought reflects our own ambivalent relationship with our bodies and the earth. Once Out of Nature offers a compelling invitation to ponder the boundaries of the human.
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9780226585758 | details & prices | 244 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $43.00
About: Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustineâs theory of time and embodiment.
About: Once Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustineâs theory of time and embodiment.
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