The Space of Time
ISBN: 9789004269316
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
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Subjects: Friendship in literature. ; Loyalty in literature.;

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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