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Title Page

Foreword

Bibliographic Note

Translator’s Note

§1. The aporia of Saint Augustine

1. Confessio or Reduction

§2. What praise means§3. Citation and responsal§4. Confessio divided and doubled§5. Coherence by confessio§6. Unity by confessio§7. The model and alterity§8. The variations of the model

2. The Ego or the Gifted

§9. The appearance of a cogito§10. The anonymity of the ego§11. The dimensions of memoria§12. The immemorial§13. What desire thinks§14. Vita beata as principle§15. The gifted, more than the ego

3. Truth, or the Saturated Phenomenon

§16. The demand of the vita beata§17. Dual-action truth§18. Hatred of truth§19. Evidential excess§20. Love of truth§21. Third-order truth§22. The truth loved: pulchritudo

4. Weakness of Will, or Power of Love

§23. Temptation and the fact of self§24. Desire or care§25. The will or my ownmost§26. To will, not to will§27. Weakness of will§28. Vehementer velle§29. The grace to will

5 Time, or the Advent

§30. Time and the origin§31. Differance§32. The aporia of the present§33. The measure of bodily movement§34. Distentio animi§35. The event of creation§36. Conversion of the distentio

6. The Creation of the Self

§37. The opening of the world§38. The aporia of the place§39. The site of confessio§40. Resemblance without definition§41. Pondus meum§42. The univocity of love§43. In the self’s place

7. Addition: Idipsum, or the Name of God

§44. The question of the names of God§45. The common response§46. Translating idipsum by attraction§47. The silence of idipsum§48. Sum qui sum, or immutability

Conclusion

§49. Oneself as inclusion

Notes

English Translations Cited

Index locorum

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