Overview
- Offers insights of interest to Augustine scholars across a wide array of disciplines such as political science, theology, philosophy, history, and classics
- Provides a new interpretation of Augustine’s important definition of the republic
- Written to be accessible to upper-level undergraduates whilst rigorous scholarship and original interpretations mean that it will also appeal to graduate students and peer researchers
Part of the book series: Recovering Political Philosophy (REPOPH)
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Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand the state by examining the soul (since Plato), the body (as in medieval theories of the body politic) and the person (surviving to this day in such concepts as international legal personality). This book aims to reinstate the Augustinian part of the story. It argues that Augustine develops three analogies between self and city, as a society ordered by love: self-love in the case of the Earthly City; divided but improving love in the Pilgrim City; and love of others and of God in the City of God. It supplies thereby an overview of Augustine’s intellectual ‘system’ as it touches upon theology, psychology and anthropology, as well as politics, and also provides a new interpretation of Augustine’s important definition of the republic.
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Ben Holland is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Nottingham, UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He is the author of The Moral Person of the State: Pufendorf, Sovereignty and Composite Polities (2017).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine
Authors: Ben Holland
Series Title: Recovering Political Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19333-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19332-4Published: 16 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19335-5Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19333-1Published: 30 July 2019
Series ISSN: 2524-7166
Series E-ISSN: 2524-7174
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 162
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Politics and Religion, Philosophy of Religion