{"product_id":"the-space-of-time-a-sensualist-interpretation-of-time-in-augustine-confessions-x-to-xii-9789004266865","title":"The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, Confessions X to XII","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): David Van Dusen\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Brill\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Time\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Robert Grosseteste to Jean-François Lyotard, Augustine's suggestion that time is a \"dilation of the soul\" (\u003ci\u003edistentio animi\u003c\/i\u003e) has been taken up as a seminal and controversial time-concept, yet in \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Time\u003c\/i\u003e, David van Dusen argues that this 'dilation' has been fundamentally misinterpreted.\u003cbr\u003eTime in \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e XI is a dilation of the \u003ci\u003esenses\u003c\/i\u003e--in beasts, as in humans. And Augustine's time-concept in \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e XI is not Platonic--but in schematic terms, Epicurean.\u003cbr\u003eIdentifying new influences on the \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e--from Aristoxenus to Lucretius--while keeping Augustine's phenomenological interpreters in view, \u003ci\u003eThe Space of Time\u003c\/i\u003e is a path-breaking work on \u003ci\u003eConfessions\u003c\/i\u003e X to XII and a ranging contribution to the history of the concept of time. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47890691752087,"sku":"9789004266865","price":23025.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789004266865.webp?v=1781180949","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-space-of-time-a-sensualist-interpretation-of-time-in-augustine-confessions-x-to-xii-9789004266865","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}