Professor Guillermo M Jodra Knihy

This two-volume work offers a fresh perspective on Western subjectivity as articulated in the Augustinian Rule, a significant yet humble example of subjectivity production. Jodra contends that Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices around the Mediterranean reveal a worldview where the self and the other are mutually inclusive rather than disjunctive. The Augustinian Rule represents both the culmination of this historical process and the inception of a new paradigm: the monastic self as the central figure in the emerging medieval worldview. The text addresses three key theoretical challenges: the origins of our modern understanding of subjectivity, the potential of Ancient sources to provide an alternative genealogy that counters the individualism of Modernity, and the possibility of preserving the commons without diminishing individuality. Jodra argues that the early Christians' synthesis of Greek and Judaic sources led to two contrasting models of subjectivity—self-less and other-less—alternating in dominance over our understanding of human nature. The Greek world contributed political dimensions, while the Jewish tradition established crucial theological principles, culminating in a Mediterranean synthesis in Rome. Jodra emphasizes the ongoing theopolitical nature of our worldview and posits that the subject of the primitive Church exemplifies this unity, illustrating that the self and the other are vital compone

This second of a two-volume work provides a new understanding of Western subjectivity as theorized in the Augustinian Rule . A theopolitical synthesis of Antiquity, the Rule is a humble, yet extremely influential example of subjectivity production. In these volumes, Jodra argues that the Classical and Late-Ancient communitarian practices along the Mediterranean provide historical proof of a worldview in which the self and the other are not disjunctive components, but mutually inclusive forces. The Augustinian Rule is a culmination of this process and also the beginning of something the paradigm of the monastic self as protagonist of the new, medieval worldview.In the previous volume, Jodra gave us the Mediterranean backstory to Augustine's 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.