| The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII Contributor(s): Van Dusen, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 9004266860 ISBN-13: 9789004266865 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $195.70 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Time - Philosophy | Metaphysics |
| Dewey: 115.092 |
| Series: Supplements to the Study of Time |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 6.36" W x 9.58" (1.57 lbs) 374 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: From Robert Grosseteste to Jean-Fran ois 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. |