The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII

David van Dusen

The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
Published
9 May 2014
Pages
16
ISBN
9789004266865

The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII

David van Dusen

From Robert Grosseteste to Jean-Francois Lyotard, Augustine’s suggestion that time is a dilation of the soul (distentio animi) has been taken up as a seminal and controversial time-concept, yet in The Space of Time, David van Dusen argues that this ‘dilation’ has been fundamentally misinterpreted. Time in Confessions XI is a dilation of the senses-in beasts, as in humans. And Augustine’s time-concept in Confessions XI is not Platonic-but in schematic terms, Epicurean. Identifying new influences on the Confessions-from Aristoxenus to Lucretius-while keeping Augustine’s phenomenological interpreters in view, The Space of Time is a path-breaking work on Confessions X to XII and a ranging contribution to the history of the concept of time.

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