Being and Conversion

About the Book

Being and Conversion is a significant contribution to philosophy and theology, and especially to the phenomenology of religion and the scholarship surrounding Heidegger´s philosophical debt to Augustine. In his groundbreaking 1995 doctoral dissertation at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the author was the first to argue that Martin Heidegger´s 1927 classic, Being and Time, has an "Augustinian Constitution" by tracing the historical and hermeneutical influences of Augustine on Heidegger and his magnum opus. It also develops an original synthesis of Heidegger´s methodology with Augustine´s thought on restlessness and conversion in order to further demonstrate their philosophical compatibility while founding a new field within the discipline that the author has termed as "Augustinian Phenomenology." Being and Conversion should be read by anyone seriously interested in phenomenology and the connection between Augustine and Heidegger.

About the Author

Craig J. N. de Paulo is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Intellectual Heritage Program at Temple University. He is the Associate Editor of the renowned Collectanea Augustiniana series and the Co-Editor of the forthcoming Volume VI entitled Augustine and Heidegger. He is also a Research Associate at the Augustinian Historical Institute of Villanova University. He has published several articles on St. Augustine and Phenomenology and lectured widely in Europe and in the United States. He holds a PhD and PhL from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in addition to an MA from Villanova University and a BA from La Salle University. He has also studied at the University of Fribourg in Switzerland and the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. Professor Paulo is a Knight of Merit of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George of the Royal House of Bourbon of the Two Sicilies (Spain) and a Knight of Magistral Grace of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.