This edition presents the central chapter from the book “In Place of Self: Augustine's Approach” by Jean-Ayuc Marion, one of the greatest modern French philosophers. From a formal point of view, the book “Instead of Self” is a detailed commentary on “Confession”—probably the most famous text of the Christian tradition about the path of the soul to God and to itself. The number of commentaries on the Confession is endless, but Marion's text is strikingly different from most of them. The book you now hold in your hands represents not just the work of a brilliant historian of philosophy, commentator and interpreter of classical texts; it is also an imitation of Augustine, an attempt to involve the reader in the same work of the soul that is spoken of in the Confessions. Just as Augustine’s text does not speak about God, about the soul, about philosophy, but is addressed to God, to the soul and to the listener, to the “true philosopher,” that is, to the one who “loves God,” so Marion’s text is under the guise of a historical -philosophical interpretation - addressed to God and to the reader as one who seeks God and seeks a radical change in himself. But what does “God” mean and what does it mean to “change”? Is it possible to change yourself?