The Confession of Augustine by Jean-Francois Lyotard is a remarkable posthumous work by one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century which engages Augustine's "Confessions," one of the major canonical works of world literature and the very paradigm of autobiography as a definable genre of writing. In The Confession of Augustine by Jean-Francois Lyotard he approaches his subject by returning to his earliest phenomenological training.
The Confession of Augustine by Jean-Francois Lyotard is less a book about the "Confessions" as it is an insight into a twentieth century philosopher at the end of his life. With prose bordering on the poetic, Lyotard entices and captivates throughout.
