Author : David van Dusen
Release : 2014-05-09
Genre : Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis The Space of Time by : David van Dusen
Download or read book The Space of Time written by David van Dusen. This book was released on 2014-05-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.