Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World </titleInfo> <name type="personal"> <namePart>Heyking, John von</namePart> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> </name> <name type="personal"> <namePart/> <role> <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm> </role> <role> <roleTerm type="text">Author</roleTerm> </role> </name> <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource> <originInfo> <place> <placeTerm type="code" authority="marccountry">8:1</placeTerm> </place> <place> <placeTerm type="text">U.S.A</placeTerm> </place> <publisher>University of Missouri Press</publisher> <dateIssued>2001</dateIssued> <issuance>monographic</issuance> </originInfo> <language> <languageTerm authority="iso639-2b" type="code">eng</languageTerm> </language> <physicalDescription> <extent>278tr.</extent> <extent>Hardcover, Illustration</extent> <extent>25 cm</extent> </physicalDescription> <abstract>Saint Augustine's political thought has usually been interpreted by modern readers as suggesting that politics is based on sin. In Augustine and Politics as Longing in the World, John von Heyking shows that Augustine actually considered political life a substantive good that fulfills a human longing for a kind of wholeness.</abstract> <note type="statement of responsibility">John von Heyking</note> <subject> <topic>Theory of knowledge</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Augustine -- Saint -- Bishop of Hippo</topic> </subject> <subject> <topic>Political sciences</topic> </subject> <classification authority="ddc">320.092</classification> <classification authority="ddc">H615-J65</classification> <identifier type="isbn">086213499</identifier> <identifier type="uri">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14972/819hab9hkhl-sy466.jpg</identifier> <location> <url displayLabel="Cover Image">https://data.thuviencodoc.org/books/14972/819hab9hkhl-sy466.jpg</url> </location> <recordInfo> <recordCreationDate encoding="marc">2024-0</recordCreationDate> <recordChangeDate encoding="iso8601">20260119071427.0</recordChangeDate> </recordInfo> </mods>