Augustine and Postmodernism: Confessions and Circumfession

Contents

Contents acknowledgments / ix Introduction: The Postmodern Augustine / 1 John D. Caputo and Michael J. Scanlon Part I. After the Event 1. Composing “Circumfession” Jacques Derrida / 19 2. Confessions and “Circumfession”: A Roundtable Discussion with Jacques Derrida Moderated by Richard Kearney / 28 Part II. Confessions and Circumfession 3. Time—for the Truth Geoffrey Bennington / 53 4. Instances: Temporal Modes from Augustine to Derrida and Lyotard Hent de Vries / 68 Response by Jacques Derrida / 88 5. Shedding Tears Beyond Being: Derrida’s Confession of Prayer John D. Caputo / 95 6. Heidegger: Reader of Augustine Philippe Capelle / 115 Response by Jacques Derrida / 124 7. The Form of an “I” Catherine Malabou / 127 Response by Jacques Derrida / 138 8. Time, Evil, and Narrative: Ricoeur on Augustine Richard Kearney / 144 9. Arendt’s Augustine Michael J. Scanlon / 159 10. Reading like Angels: Derrida and Augustine on the Book (for a History of Literature) Mark Vessey / 173 Response by Jacques Derrida / 208 11. Augustine’s Unconfessions James J. O’Donnell / 212 Caputo/Scanlon, Augustine 12/2/04 10:09 AM Page vii 12. On Not Retracting the Unconfessed Elizabeth A. Clark / 222 13. Why Augustine? Why Now? Jean Bethke Elshtain / 244 contributors / 257 index / 259 viii Contents Caputo/Scanlon, Augustine 12/2/04 10:09 AM Page viii ...