Augustine's letters: negotiating absence.

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dc.contributor.authorKoester, Kristen Ann
dc.contributor.supervisorLittlewood, C. A. J.
dc.contributor.supervisorCameron, Margaret
dc.date.accessioned2011-06-24T16:52:57Z
dc.date.available2011-06-24T16:52:57Z
dc.date.copyright2011en_US
dc.date.issued2011-06-24
dc.degree.departmentDept. of Greek and Roman Studiesen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Arts M.A.en_US
dc.description.abstractReading Augustine’s letters as a collection proves useful for understanding his theory in practice of the significance of others—the moral status of love for others—particularly since the conditions of the letter (absence, writing) engender expressions of lack and desire for the other. With Augustine, this desire is frequently in tension with his Neoplatonic and Christian philosophical commitments which valorise the Creator over the creature, universally-directed love over private love, and the soul over the body. Following these tensions between theory and practice chronologically through the letters shows his changing responses to the significance of the other, in terms of their bodily presence and their individual interior experience. Moreover, Augustine’s developing theory of the afterlife as a place of continued embodiment and the fulfilment of intimacy corresponds to and models Augustine’s responses to absence and longing in this life.en_US
dc.description.scholarlevelGraduateen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1828/3386
dc.languageEnglisheng
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rights.tempAvailable to the World Wide Weben_US
dc.subjectSaint Augustineen_US
dc.subjectAugustine, Bishop of Hippoen_US
dc.subjectLoveen_US
dc.subjectDesireen_US
dc.subjectLanguageen_US
dc.subjectBodyen_US
dc.subjectNeoplatonismen_US
dc.subjectSelfen_US
dc.subjectIntimacyen_US
dc.subjectAfterlifeen_US
dc.subjectRelationshipsen_US
dc.titleAugustine's letters: negotiating absence.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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