On Regular Life, Freedom, Modernity, and Augustinian Communitarianism

Jodra's two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized in the Augustinian Rule, arguing that the self and the other are mutually inclusive forces and that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical proof of this worldview. The Augustinian Rule is a culmination of this process and the beginning of the paradigm of the monastic self as protagonist of the new, medieval worldview.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 120 pages
Publication date: 17 November 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

This second of a two-volume work offers a fresh perspective on Western subjectivity as conceptualized in the Augustinian Rule. A theopolitical synthesis of Antiquity, the Rule is a modest yet profoundly influential exemplar of subjectivity production. Within these volumes, Jodra contends that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical evidence of a worldview in which the self and the other are not disjunctive components but mutually inclusive forces. The Augustinian Rule represents the culmination of this process and also the beginning of something new: the paradigm of the monastic self as the protagonist of the new, medieval worldview. In the preceding volume, Jodra provided us with the Mediterranean backdrop to Augustines Rule. In this volume two, he develops his solution to socialism, through a kind of Augustinian communitarianism for today, in full. These volumes, therefore, restore the unity of the Hellenistic and Judaic world as found by the first Christians, proving that the self and the other are two essential pieces in the construction of our world.

Weight: 162g
Dimension: 138 x 214 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781350303522