001477879 000__ 05472nam\a22008055i\4500 001477879 001__ 1477879 001477879 003__ DE-B1597 001477879 005__ 20231026034834.0 001477879 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477879 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477879 008__ 230103t20222010nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477879 020__ $$a9780823292578 001477879 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823292578$$2doi 001477879 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)565917 001477879 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1306539041 001477879 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477879 0410_ $$aeng 001477879 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477879 072_7 $$aREL102000$$2bisacsh 001477879 1001_ $$aBurrus, Virginia, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477879 24510 $$aSeducing Augustine :$$bBodies, Desires, Confessions /$$cVirginia Burrus, Karmen MacKendrick, Mark D. Jordan. 001477879 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2022] 001477879 264_4 $$c©2010 001477879 300__ $$a1 online resource (176 p.) 001477879 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477879 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477879 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477879 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477879 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tContents -- $$tPreface -- $$tIntroduction: Pleasurable Temptations -- $$t1. Secrets and Lies -- $$t2. The Word, His Body -- $$t3. Freedom in Submission -- $$t4. No Time for Sex -- $$tConclusion: Seductive Praises -- $$tNotes -- $$tWorks Cited -- $$tIndex 001477879 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477879 520__ $$aAugustine's Confessions is a text that seduces. But how often do its readers respond in kind? Here three scholars who share a longstanding fascination with sexuality and Christian discourse attempt to do just that. Where prior interpreters have been inclined either to defend or to criticize Augustine's views, Virginia Burrus, Mark Jordan, and Karmen MacKendrick set out both to seduce and to be seduced by his text. Often ambivalent but always passionately engaged, their readings of the Confessions center on four sets of intertwined themes-secrecy and confession, asceticism and eroticism, constraint and freedom, and time and eternity. Rather than expose Augustine's sexual history, they explore how the Confessions conjoins the erotic with the hidden, the imaginary, and the fictional. Rather than bemoan the repressiveness of his text, they uncover the complex relationship between seductive flesh and persuasive words that pervades all of its books. Rather than struggle to escape the control of the author, they embrace the painful pleasure of willed submission that lies at the erotic heart not only of the Confessions but also of Augustine's broader understanding of sin and salvation. Rather than mourn the fateful otherworldliness of his theological vision, they plumb the bottomless depths of beauty that Augustine discovers within creation, thereby extending desire precisely by refusing satisfaction. In unfolding their readings, the authors draw upon other works in Augustine's corpus while building on prior Augustinian scholarship in their own overlapping fields of history, theology, and philosophy. They also press well beyond the conventional boundaries of scholarly disciplines, conversing with such wide-ranging theorists of eroticism as Barthes, Baudrillard, Klossowski, Foucault, and Harpham. In the end, they offer not only a fresh interpretation of Augustine's famous work but also a multivocal literary-philosophical meditation on the seductive elusiveness of desire, bodies, language, and God. 001477879 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477879 546__ $$aIn English. 001477879 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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