The Space of Time

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

von David van Dusen

16 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Themen: Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften Astronomie, Raum und Zeit Zeit (Chronologie), Zeitsysteme und- standards
• ISBN: 9789004266865
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 09.05.2014
• Größe: 243 x 162 mm
• Verlag: Brill