Space of Time (eBook)

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

David van Dusen (Autor)

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2014
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-26931-6 (ISBN)

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From Robert Grosseteste to Jean-Francois Lyotard, Augustine's suggestion that time is a "e;dilation of the soul"e; (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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.5.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften ► Chronologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 90-04-26931-2 / 9004269312
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-26931-6 / 9789004269316