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If the defining feature of the Middle Ages is it churches, the defining architect of its mind , heart and soul- at least until Aquinas - is St Augustine. The Church was the spiritual army whose leaders were its fathers. And in that sense, Augustine's thought is closer in modern terms to a revolutionary like Lenin than it is to a philosopher's. A philosopher may well be part of a broad movement, but his appeal is usually to first principles rather than to a body of faith, even if once philosophies are entrenched, very questionable first principles easily become matters of faith, and the collection of a philosophers' members form a kind of church. This collection examines Augustine's core ideas and brings scholars from the USA, EU, Australia and Asia.

Dr Wayne Cristaudo is Director of European Studies and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong.

He is the author of Metaphysics of Science and Freedom: From Descartes to Kant to Hegel (Aldershot, Gower, 1991), This Great Beast: Progress and the Modern State with Bob Catley (Aldershot, Ashgate, 1997), Great Ideas in the Western Literary canon with Peter Poiana (Boston, University of America Press, 2003). Power, Love and Evil: Contribution to a Philosophy of the Damaged (Rodopi, 2007), and coeditor of Messianism, Apocalypse Redemption: 20th Century German Thought, Wendy Baker and Wayne Cristaudo, eds with Introduction by Wayne Cristaudo (Adelaide: ATF Press, 2006). He has written articles on Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Franz Rosenzweig, Marx, Kant, Hegel, Voegelin and Ernst Cassirer and rock music, he is presently completing a major study of the speech thinking revolution of Rosenstock-Huessy and Franz Rosenzweig and a Contribution to a Philosophy of Love. He is also a musician and has recently released an album entitled When the Night Does Fall.

Dr Heung-wah Wong is Head of the School of Modern Languages and Cultures and Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers: Power and Control in a Hong Kong Megastore (Curzon Press, 1999) and Friendship and Self-Interest: An Anthropological Study of a Japanese Supermarket in Hong Kong (Fukyosha, 2004, in Japanese) With Joy Hendry, he co-edited a book titled Dismantling. The East-West Dichotomy: Essays in Honour of Jan Van Bremen (Routledge, 2006). Dr Wong has also published a number of journal articles and book chapters on Japanese overseas companies, Japanese popular culture and Japanese pornographic culture in Asia.