William E. Mann is Marsh Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy, University of Vermont.

• Chapter 1 IntroductionChapter 2 AcknowledgmentsChapter 3 1. The Philosopher in the CribChapter 4 2. Word Learning and Theory of MindChapter 5 3. Augustine on the Teacher WithinChapter 6 4. Petit Larceny, the Beginning of All Sin: Augustine's Theft of the PearsChapter 7 5. Augustine on Evil and Original SinChapter 8 6. The Divine NatureChapter 9 7. Suffering LoveChapter 10 8. Augustine's GriefsChapter 11 9. God's Speaking and Augustine's ConversionChapter 12 10. On Being Morally Responsible in a DreamChapter 13 11. The Book of MemoryChapter 14 12. Time, Mysticism, and CreationChapter 15 BibliographyChapter 16 About the Editor and Authors

William Mann has assembled essays from a handful of veteran truth-seekers, all of who have been perplexed in some way by what perplexes Augustine in his Confessions. Mann's volume aims to engage with Augustine on a number of open questions: the acquisition of a first language, the motive force of evil, the fleeting reality of time, the ethics of grief, the desire for God, the power of memory, the limits of responsibility, the communicability of the Word. As an ensemble, this collection is certain to exercise the analytical imagination.