@article {Levene:November 2008:0943-3058:371,
	author = "Levene, Nancy",
	title = "Traces of History in St. Anselm",
	journal = "Method & Theory in the Study of Religion",
	volume = "20",
	year = "November 2008",
	abstract = "This paper is a schematic consideration of the relationship between reason and history through the figure of St. Anselm of Canterbury, the very exemplar, one might suppose, of the pre-modern absence of historical consciousness. I argue that while Anselm may offend a maximal number of contemporary scholarly habits of mind, whether historicist, secular, or simply argumentative, he is at the front lines of a classic question recently posed by Alain Badiou, namely how much can one think outside of one's time? This question expresses an anxiety concerning both what it is possible and/or permissible to think at any given time and what time or history have to do with thinking as such—an anxiety neatly symbolized, I claim, by the leaden specter of the ontological argument. What, it might rightly be asked, is Anselm's argument to us? A provocation, certainly; a theory, possibly.",
	pages = "371-384(14)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/mtsr/2008/00000020/00000004/art00006"
	doi = "doi:10.1163/157006808X371842"
}