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Journal Article
SAINT AUGUSTINE'S REGION OF UNLIKENESS: THE CROSSING OF EXILE AND LANGUAGE
1975
Overview
There is a parallel between the exile--the person banished from his proper place--& figurative speech, harking back to some fundamental tenets of Western metaphysics that interpret truth as presence & language as mimesis. For Augustine, all language is metaphorical just as man is always in exile from God. Plato's image of a region of unlikeness in the Statesman is a translation of time into space. Augustine interprets it as the result of the spatialization of time that syntax requires, which is a mark of the inadequacy of all signs. Lang is both the region of unlikeness & the way to escape from it as a way to God--the scriptures are only a partial path toward God. They point to a time when they no longer will be necessary because we will \"perceive the face of God.\" A. Orianne
