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

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

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ISBN10: 9004266860
ISBN13: 9789004266865
Publisher: Brill
Published: May 9 2014
Pages: 16
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.36 Depth: 9.58
Language: English
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.

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