Notre mémoire a pour but de mettre en lumière la conception de la philosophie développée dans les écrits de jeunesse d’Augustin (plus précisément, les écrits d’Augustin qui remontent à son séjour à Cassiciacum, entre 386 et 387). Il limitera son analyse aux œuvres d’Augustin que nous retrouvons dans les deux volumes du tome IV de la Bibliothèque augustinienne : le De beata uita et le De ordine. Ce travail reprendra la question posée par Jean-Luc Marion dans son œuvre Au lieu de soi : L’approche de Saint Augustin en examinant si Augustin fait ou non partie de la tradition métaphysique. Cette question sera en effet au centre de notre mémoire en orientant le développement des chapitres de notre étude sur la conception de la philosophie chez le jeune Augustin. L’objectif de notre mémoire sera donc de mieux saisir la conception augustinienne de la philosophie que nous retrouvons dans le De beata uita et le De ordine afin de vérifier si cette conception est cohérente avec la thèse marionienne selon laquelle Augustin ne fait pas partie de la tradition métaphysique. / Our Master's thesis wishes to shed light on the conception of philosophy developed in the early writings of Augustine (more precisely, the ones that Augustine has written during his time spent at Cassiciacum, between 386 and 387). It will limit its investigation to the works of Augustine that we can find in the two volumes of the fourth volume of the Bibliothèque augustinienne: the De beata uita and the De ordine. This work will pursue the question asked by Jean-Luc Marion in his study Au lieu de soi : L’approche de Saint Augustin and will try to find out if Augustine is or is not part of the metaphysical tradition. This question will indeed be at the core of our Master's thesis by orienting the development of the chapters of our study of the conception of philosophy of the young Augustine. The purpose of our Master's thesis is thus to better understand the Augustinian conception of philosophy that we find in the De beata uita and the De ordine in order to see if this conception is coherent with the Marionian thesis which states that Augustine is not a part of the metaphysical tradition.

Meanings of Literary Childhood Spaces: The Garden in Twentieth-Century Literature focuses on the analysis of selected twentieth-century childhood novels for adults with regard to the relationship between child character and fictional space, and reflects generally accepted cultural concept of paradisal childhood and its images in literature. In theory, the dissertation is inspired by the treatises on spatiality of human existence by phenomenologists, such as Martin Heidegger, Jan Patočka, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and O. F. Bollnow. It also elaborates insights of the Garden archetype in literary history. The critical reading of selected works examines phenomenological issues, such as child specific perception of space, nature as an extension of the human consciousness, sacred space, home, intimacy of space and death of space. Furthermore, it describes features the literary garden acquires by the union with the child in twentieth-century literature (childhood paradisal gardens, character of divine chid, character of child hermaphrodite, dynamism between fictional house and garden, garden as a miniature of the universe and children games as the imitation of Creation).