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

ISBN-13: 9789004266865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 16 str.

David van Dusen

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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.