On Hellenism, Judaism, Individualism, and Early Christian Theories of the Subject
On Hellenism, Judaism, Individualism, and Early Christian Theories of the Subject This first of a two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized in the Augustinian…
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On Hellenism, Judaism, Individualism, and Early Christian Theories of the Subject
This first of a two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized in the Augustinian Rule. In these volumes, Jodra argues that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical proof of a worldview in which the self and the other are not disjunctive components, but mutually inclusive forces. A theopolitical synthesis of Antiquity, the Rule is a humble, yet extremely influential example of subjectivity production.
The Augustinian Rule is a culmination of this process and also the beginning of something new: the paradigm of the monastic self as protagonist of the new, medieval worldview.In this volume, Jodra takes one of the most influential and pervasive commons experiments-Augustine's Rule-and gives us its Mediterranean backstory, with an eye to solving at last the riddle
On the Subject of Religion