LEADER 03642nam 2200613 a 450 001 9910781409403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-36274-0 010 $a9786613362742 010 $a0-226-58578-6 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226585789 035 $a(CKB)2550000000073494 035 $a(EBL)836902 035 $a(OCoLC)772845737 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000555243 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12242706 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000555243 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10518761 035 $a(PQKB)11381665 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC836902 035 $a(DE-B1597)524989 035 $a(OCoLC)768812987 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226585789 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL836902 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10519573 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL336274 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000073494 100 $a20100921d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOnce out of nature$b[electronic resource] $eAugustine on time and the body /$fAndrea Nightingale 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (259 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-58575-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- Edenic and resurrected transhumans -- Scattered in time -- The unsituated self -- Body and book -- Unearthly bodies -- Epilogue: "mortal interindebtedness" -- Appendix: Augustine on Paul's notion of the flesh and the body. 330 $aOnce Out of Nature offers an original interpretation of Augustine's theory of time and embodiment. Andrea Nightingale draws on philosophy, sociology, literary theory, and social history to analyze Augustine's conception of temporality, eternity, and the human and transhuman condition. In Nightingale's view, the notion of embodiment illuminates a set of problems much larger than the body itself: it captures the human experience of being an embodied soul dwelling on earth. In Augustine's writings, humans live both in and out of nature-exiled from Eden and punished by mortality, they are "resident aliens" on earth. While the human body is subject to earthly time, the human mind is governed by what Nightingale calls psychic time. For the human psyche always stretches away from the present moment-where the physical body persists-into memories and expectations. As Nightingale explains, while the body is present in the here and now, the psyche cannot experience self-presence. Thus, for Augustine, the human being dwells in two distinct time zones, in earthly time and in psychic time. The human self, then, is a moving target. Adam, Eve, and the resurrected saints, by contrast, live outside of time and nature: these transhumans dwell in an everlasting present. Nightingale connects Augustine's views to contemporary debates about transhumans and suggests that Augustine's thought reflects our own ambivalent relationship with our bodies and the earth. Once Out of Nature offers a compelling invitation to ponder the boundaries of the human. 606 $aHuman body$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 606 $aTime$xReligious aspects$xChristianity 615 0$aHuman body$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 615 0$aTime$xReligious aspects$xChristianity. 676 $a233/.5 700 $aNightingale$b Andrea Wilson$0223657 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781409403321 996 $aOnce out of nature$9238145 997 $aUNINA