
Confessions (Classics)


Heidegger's Confessions: The Remains of Saint Augustine in "Being and Time" and Beyond (Religion and Postmodernism)
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For all of the political and philosophical wisdom she draws from it, Augustine’s Confessions is animated by his experience of personal love — that eternal force that governs the Sun and the Moon and the stars of our interior lives, reflected and codified in our cultural and social structures.
Maria Popova • Hannah Arendt on Love and How to Live with the Fundamental Fear of Loss
Saint Augustine’s Confessions, published around 1600 years ago, is considered the first Western autobiography, but it might most accurately be described as the first Quarterlife memoir. In it, Saint Augustine—then Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis—wrote: “I found much to bewilder me in my memories of the long time which had