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Confessions

Confessions

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Bilingual edition

The Latin text alongside the English translation based on the critical editions of Paris (1679) and Venice (1735), collated with Gaume's critical edition, and the revised translation of Edward B. Pusey.

Editorial notes and annotations

Detailed commentary clarifying Augustine's terminology, his engagement with Neoplatonism, Manichaeism, and the Scholastic tradition, as well as the biblical references that run throughout the text.

Introduction by Wilhelm Dilthey

An introductory essay situating Augustine within the intellectual, theological, and philosophical currents of late antiquity, recovering the full weight of his questions for the contemporary reader.

Analytical index

A comprehensive index tracing the principal concepts and arguments across both the Discourse and the Correspondence, designed for profound study.

Hardcover binding

Durable, premium hardcover with a ribbon marker, designed for a lifetime on your shelf, and an additional thematic bookmark.

Logos Reader included

Includes a special issue of the Logos Reader dedicated to Augustine's philosophical system, his relationship to the classical tradition, and the metaphysical legacy of the Confessions.

Confessions

The founding text of Western autobiography and one of the most rigorous philosophical investigations of memory, time, desire, and the self ever written.

The founding text of Western autobiography and one of the most rigorous philosophical investigations of memory, time, desire, and the self ever written.

In 397, Augustine of Hippo began writing a text unlike anything that had preceded it. Addressed entirely to God throughout all thirteen books, the Confessions narrates his intellectual and spiritual journey — through Manichaeism, Academic skepticism, and Neoplatonism — toward his conversion to Christianity, culminating in a sustained philosophical inquiry into memory, time, and the structure of the self.

In 397, Augustine of Hippo began writing a text unlike anything that had preceded it. Addressed entirely to God throughout all thirteen books, the Confessions narrates his intellectual and spiritual journey — through Manichaeism, Academic skepticism, and Neoplatonism — toward his conversion to Christianity, culminating in a sustained philosophical inquiry into memory, time, and the structure of the self.

Augustine asks why the mind has such poor knowledge of itself, descending into what he calls an abyss, discovering depths that exceed the self's own capacity for self-examination. He dismantles the ordinary understanding of time, arguing that past, present, and future are not properties of the external world but modes of the mind's own attention — an argument that remained foundational for phenomenology.

Augustine asks why the mind has such poor knowledge of itself, descending into what he calls an abyss, discovering depths that exceed the self's own capacity for self-examination. He dismantles the ordinary understanding of time, arguing that past, present, and future are not properties of the external world but modes of the mind's own attention — an argument that remained foundational for phenomenology.

The Confessions was never meant to be a philosophical treatise. That is part of what makes it one.

The Confessions was never meant to be a philosophical treatise. That is part of what makes it one.

Saint Augustine: A restless mind that changed everything

Born in 354 in Thagaste, in what is now Algeria, Augustine was a trained rhetorician, a former professor of rhetoric in Milan, and one of the most formidable intellects of late antiquity. He became bishop of Hippo in 396 — one year before writing the Confessions.

He had passed through Manichaeism, Academic skepticism, and Neoplatonism before arriving at Christianity. Each tradition left its mark. His philosophical formation was rigorous and pluralistic, and the Confessions bears the trace of every intellectual encounter he survived.

His influence is without parallel in Western thought. Pascal read the Confessions and wrote the Pensées. Kierkegaard found in it the vocabulary for despair. Heidegger analyzed it in his 1921 Freiburg lectures and returned to it in Being and Time. Hannah Arendt wrote her doctoral dissertation on his concept of love. The book has been generating readers who think it was written for them for fifteen centuries.

Saint Augustine: A restless mind that changed everything

Born in 354 in Thagaste, in what is now Algeria, Augustine was a trained rhetorician, a former professor of rhetoric in Milan, and one of the most formidable intellects of late antiquity. He became bishop of Hippo in 396 — one year before writing the Confessions.

He had passed through Manichaeism, Academic skepticism, and Neoplatonism before arriving at Christianity. Each tradition left its mark. His philosophical formation was rigorous and pluralistic, and the Confessions bears the trace of every intellectual encounter he survived.

His influence is without parallel in Western thought. Pascal read the Confessions and wrote the Pensées. Kierkegaard found in it the vocabulary for despair. Heidegger analyzed it in his 1921 Freiburg lectures and returned to it in Being and Time. Hannah Arendt wrote her doctoral dissertation on his concept of love. The book has been generating readers who think it was written for them for fifteen centuries.

Saint Augustine: A restless mind that changed everything

Born in 354 in Thagaste, in what is now Algeria, Augustine was a trained rhetorician, a former professor of rhetoric in Milan, and one of the most formidable intellects of late antiquity. He became bishop of Hippo in 396 — one year before writing the Confessions.

He had passed through Manichaeism, Academic skepticism, and Neoplatonism before arriving at Christianity. Each tradition left its mark. His philosophical formation was rigorous and pluralistic, and the Confessions bears the trace of every intellectual encounter he survived.

His influence is without parallel in Western thought. Pascal read the Confessions and wrote the Pensées. Kierkegaard found in it the vocabulary for despair. Heidegger analyzed it in his 1921 Freiburg lectures and returned to it in Being and Time. Hannah Arendt wrote her doctoral dissertation on his concept of love. The book has been generating readers who think it was written for them for fifteen centuries.

Inside the Logos ReadeR

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The Restless Heart:

Augustine and the Light Within

The Restless Heart:

Augustine and the Light Within

This issue accompanies the Confessions with four texts

that illuminate Augustine from distinct but converging angles:

This issue accompanies the Confessions with four texts that illuminate Augustine from distinct but converging angles:

Augustine: Restlessness and the Search for Rest — A Logos Reader original covering Augustine's intellectual formation, the structure of the Confessions, and the philosophical significance of his treatment of memory, time, and the self.

Augustine: Restlessness and the Search for Rest — A Logos Reader original covering Augustine's intellectual formation, the structure of the Confessions, and the philosophical significance of his treatment of memory, time, and the self.

The Influence of Vergil on St. Jerome and on St. Augustine, by Harrison Cadwallader Coffin — Examines how Augustine inherited and transformed the classical literary tradition, tracing the presence of Virgil in the Confessions and its theological implications.

The Influence of Vergil on St. Jerome and on St. Augustine, by Harrison Cadwallader Coffin — Examines how Augustine inherited and transformed the classical literary tradition, tracing the presence of Virgil in the Confessions and its theological implications.

The Future of Augustinian Metaphysics, by Étienne Gilson — Written by one of the great historians of medieval philosophy, this essay examines the enduring philosophical relevance of Augustine's metaphysics and its relationship to the subsequent tradition.

The Future of Augustinian Metaphysics, by Étienne Gilson
Written by one of the great historians of medieval philosophy, this essay examines the enduring philosophical relevance of Augustine's metaphysics and its relationship to the subsequent tradition.

Further Reading Academic references for deeper study.

Further Reading Academic references for deeper study.

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