Abstract

The scope of this work is wider than the title suggests. Chapter and section headings are a better measure of its breadth: Preface, “A Village of the Mind”; Chapter 1, “Why Augustine? Why Now? ”; Chapter 2, “The Earthly City and Its Discontents ”; Chapter 3, “Against the Pridefulness of Philosophy ”; Chapter 4, “Augustine’s Evil—Arendt’s Eichmann ”; Chapter 5, “‘Our Business with this Common Mortal life’— Augustine and a Politics of Limits ”; Epilogue, “Loving Crazy Horse and Augustine.”