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The Time of Confession: Lyotard on Augustine

Neal Curtis

Anglia Polytechnic University, Cambridge, n.curtis{at}apu.ac.uk

Lyotard's essay on Augustine crystallizes his earlier meditations on ethics. Primarily it is a study of time. Firstly Lyotard returns to Augustine's consideration of the present as an unpresentable now. Secondly, he challenges the desire of the confessant to complete himself and overcome `the delay' set in place by his constitution through the Other. However, to guard against the solipsism threatened by Lyotard's interpretation the article complements it with a Bakhtinian analysis of confession. In this sense a dialogic moment is introduced and worked through in relation to the principle of charity as it relates to the time of confession.

Key Words: Bakhtin • charity • confession • ethics • modernity • subjectivity

Time & Society, Vol. 12, No. 2-3, 189-207 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0961463X030122002
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