Augustine for the Philosophers: The Rhetor of Hippo, the Confessions, and the Continentals

The essays in Troup’s volume, in addition to charting relations between Augustine and continental philosophy, point to further avenues of scholarship concerning the relationship between Augustine, rhetoric, and philosophy…

In Augustine for the Philosophers, Calvin L. Troup assembles an elegant collection of inquiries into the various insights a dialogue between the continental philosophical tradition and the works of St. Augustine can afford towards the study of rhetoric…Students of rhetoric and philosophy, regardless of their religious inclinations, will undoubtedly find this work an invaluable resource.