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The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, ConfessionsX to XII
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by David van Dusen
David van Dusen
The Space of Time: A Sensualist Interpretation of Time in Augustine, ConfessionsX to XII
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by David van Dusen
David van Dusen
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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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9789004266865 |
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Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers, Inc. |
Publication date: | 06/15/2014 |
Series: | Supplements to the Study of Time Series , #6 |
Pages: | 16 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.00(d) |
About the Author
David van Dusen, M.Phil. (Trinity Saint David), M.Phil. (Leuven), is a doctoral fellow of the De Wulf-Mansion Centre at the University of Leuven, and a former visiting research fellow of the Augustinianum in Rome.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsList of Abbreviations Note on CitationsSYNOPSISDilation and the Question of TimeINTRODUCTIONTo Recover Augustine’s Time-Question0 Proem1 Augustine and the Temporal Intrigue1.1 Against a Truncated Interpretation of Confessions XI1.2 Preliminary Remarks on the Term ‘Sensualist’1.3 Axiology and Temporality in Augustine’s Confessions1.4 Time in Augustine’s Triplex Division of Philosophy2 Augustine and the Physical Question of Time2.1 Time and Augustine’s Rerum Natura 2.2 Time in the Confessions: A Typology of the Received Interpretations2.3 Confessions XI and Typologies of Time in AntiquityPART IAnticipations and Clarifications3 Remarks on the Genre and Sources of Augustine’s Confessions3.1 Preliminary Remarks on Genre3.2 Sallust’s Conspiracy of Catiline: A Source for the Confessions?3.3 Confessio Ignorantiae: Cicero and Augustine’s Confessions3.4 Confessio Scientiae: Epicurus and Lucretius in Augustine’s Confessions3.5 Confessions X to XII: Dialectics and Song3.6 Concluding Remarks on Genre4 Towards a Lexical Clarification of ‘Time’ (Conf. XI.22–24) 4.1 A Distribution of Augustine’s Time-Investigation (Conf. XI.14–29)4.2 “We Say ‘Time,’ We Say ‘Times’” (Conf. XI.22–24)4.3 Towards Augustine’s “Power and Nature of Time” (Conf. X.6–7, XI.23–24)5 Towards the Speculative Terrain of Confessions XII (Conf. XI.30–31) 5.1 Temporal Presence: Varieties of ‘Impresence’ 5.2 Temporal Dilation: A Preliminary Characterization 5.3 Expectatio Is Never Praescientia (Conf. XI.31) 5.4 A Discarnate Mind and a Dilation of the Senses (Conf. XI.31)PART IITime Is Illuminated by Timelessness6 What Is and Is Not in Question in Confessions XII 6.1 Time and the Prophetic ‘Letter’6.2 How Timelessness Will Illuminate Time7 Cohesion to God, Inhesion of the Flesh: Augustine’s Caelum Intellectuale7.1 Axiology and Temporality Revisited7.2 Augustine’s Hyper-Heavenly (Caelum Caeli)7.3 Timelessness and the Root-Verb Haerere7.4 More on Augustine’s Root-Verb Haerere8 Corpus et Anima: The Duplicity of Praesens from Confessions X8.1 “A Body and a Soul Are Present in Me” (Conf. X.6)8.2 The Sense of Anima, the Sense of Animus (Conf. X.7)8.3 “Cattle and Birds Possess Memory” (Conf. X.17)8.4 Excursus: Time Is in the Beasts 8.5 The Root-Sense of Anima and Animus (Conf. X–XII)9 Physical Movement and Mutive Times: Augustine’s Materia Informis9.1 Informitas and Timelessness (Conf. XII.6)9.2 “Times are Produced by the Movements of Things” (Conf. XII.8)9.3 The Register of ‘Mutive Times’ in Confessions XII9.4 The Evidence for ‘Mutive Times’ in Confessions XII9.5 Excursus on Logical Precedence (Conf. XII.29)9.6 Excursus on Sensual ‘Outness’ (Epist. 137) PART IIIA Sensualist Interpretation of Confessions XI10 Intimacy with the Flesh Is Intimacy with Time (Conf. XI–XII)10.1 “Words Begun and Ended, Sounding in Times” (Conf. XII.27)10.2 Familiaritas Carnis and Familiaritas Temporis (Conf. XI.14)11 Times and Time from Augustine’s Eternity-Meditation (Conf. XI.3–13) 11.1 Time, Times, and a Proto-Distentio (Conf. XI.11–13)11.2 Imago, Affectio and Distentio in the Confessions,11.3 “Sense Roves” and “Sense Dilates” (Conf. XI.13, XI.31)12 A Preparation of Augustine’s Time-Investigation (Conf. XI.11–29)12.1 The Soul’s Capacity to Sense Time (Conf. XI.15–16)12.2 “A Long Time Cannot Become Long ...” (Conf. XI.11)12.3 The Production of Times as a Condition for Time (Conf. XI.11, XII.8)13 From a Sense of Passing Time to a Dilation of the Senses (Conf. XI.15–28) 13.1 Praesens Tempus and a Sense of Temporal Intervals (Conf. XI.15–16)13.2 Times Are Not ‘Times’ and Presence Is Not ‘Presence’ (Conf. XI.20)13.3 “As I Just Said, We Measure Times as They Pass” (Conf. XI.21)13.4 Vagaries of Motion and the Introduction of Dilation (Conf. XI.24–26)13.5 Sensation and Originary Temporal Mensuration (Conf. XI.27–28) 13.6 “The Verse Is Sensed by a Clear Sensation” (Conf. XI.27)13.7 “Something Remains Infixed in My Memory” (Conf. XI.27)13.8 “These Are ‘Times,’ or I Do Not Measure Times” (Conf. XI.27)13.9 “Songs and the Dimensions of Movements” (Conf. XI.27–28)ENVOITime Exceeds Us because Time Is in UsAppendices1. Remarks on Plotinus, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus and Augustine2. Augustine and the Paris Condemnations of 12773. Pierre Gassendi’s Metaphysical Confession of Time4. Thomas Hobbes’s Physical Confession of TimeSelect BibliographyIndicesFrom the B&N Reads Blog
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