The space of time : a sensualist interpretation of time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII / by David van Dusen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Dusen, David, author.

Series:

Supplements to The study of time ; Volume 6.

Supplements to the Study of Time, 1873-7463 ; Volume 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Time.

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Confessiones--Liber 10-12.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Robert Grosseteste to Jean-François 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.

Contents:

Part 1. Anticipations and clarifications

Part 2. Time is illuminated by timelessness

Part 3. A sensualist interpretation of confessions XI.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-26931-2

OCLC:

879582963

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004269316 DOI