On Religion and Memory / / ed. by Babette Hellemans, Burcht Pranger, Willemien Otten.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bruun, Mette Birkedal,; Cramer, Peter,; Cummings, Brian,; Groot, Rokus de,; Hallisey, Charles,; Hellemans, Babette,; Hemel, Ernst van den,; Maas, Sander van,; Otten, Willemien,; Pranger, Burcht,; Szafraniec, Asja,; Wetzel, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Hellemans, Babette,; Otten, Willemien,; Pranger, Burcht,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]; ©2013
• Publicatiejaar: 2022
• Taal: English
• Fysieke beschrijving: 1 online resource (288 p.) :; 1 Illustration, black and white

This volume takes up the challenge implied in Augustine’s paradox of time: How does one account for the continuity of history and the certitude of memory, if time, in the guise of an indivisible “now,” cuts off any extension of the present? The thinkers and artists the essays address include Augustine, Abelard, Eriugena and Thoreau, Calvin, Shakespeare, De Rance, Stravinsky and Messiaen, Rubens and Woolf.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction: On Religion and Pastness -- Part I Time and Eternity: Between and Betwixt -- 1. The Vision at Ostia: Augustine’s Desire to Become a Red Indian -- 2. Memory and the Sublime: Wittgenstein on Augustine’s Trouble with Time -- Part II Moving Progressively Backward -- 3. The Man without Memory: Peter Abelard and Trust in History -- 4. Creation and Epiphanic Incarnation: Reflections on the Future of Natural Theology from an Eriugenian- Emersonian Perspective -- 5. The Care of the Past: The Place of Pastness in Transgenerational Projects -- 6. Trembling in Time: Silence and Meaning between Barthes, Chateaubriand, and Rancé -- Part III -- 7. The Literary Comfort of Eternity: Calvin and Thoreau -- 8. The Past and History in Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Part IV Time and Lateness -- 9. From Past to Present and from Listening to Hearing: Final Indefinable Moments in Bach’s and Stravinsky’s Music -- 10. Late Style Messiaen -- Part V Time and Oblivion -- 11. Of Shakespeare and Pastness -- 12. The Anger of Angels: From Rubens to Virginia Woolf -- Notes -- List of Contributors