The Space of Time

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.

Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Note on Citations

SYNOPSIS
Dilation and the Question of Time

INTRODUCTION
To Recover Augustine’s Time-Question

0Proem

1 Augustine and the Temporal Intrigue
1.1Against a Truncated Interpretation of Confessions XI
1.2Preliminary Remarks on the Term ‘Sensualist’
1.3Axiology and Temporality in Augustine’s Confessions
1.4Time in Augustine’s Triplex Division of Philosophy

2Augustine and the Physical Question of Time
2.1Time and Augustine’s Rerum Natura
2.2Time in the Confessions: A Typology of the Received Interpretations
2.3Confessions XI and Typologies of Time in Antiquity

PART I
Anticipations and Clarifications

3 Remarks on the Genre and Sources of Augustine’s Confessions
3.1Preliminary Remarks on Genre
3.2Sallust’s Conspiracy of Catiline: A Source for the Confessions?
3.3Confessio Ignorantiae: Cicero and Augustine’s Confessions
3.4Confessio Scientiae: Epicurus and Lucretius in Augustine’s Confessions
3.5Confessions X to XII: Dialectics and Song
3.6Concluding Remarks on Genre

4 Towards a Lexical Clarification of ‘Time’ (Conf. XI.22–24)
4.1A Distribution of Augustine’s Time-Investigation (Conf. XI.14–29)
4.2“We Say ‘Time,’ We Say ‘Times’” (Conf. XI.22–24)
4.3Towards 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)
5.1Temporal Presence: Varieties of ‘Impresence’
5.2Temporal Dilation: A Preliminary Characterization
5.3Expectatio Is Never Praescientia (Conf. XI.31)
5.4A Discarnate Mind and a Dilation of the Senses (Conf. XI.31)

PART II
Time Is Illuminated by Timelessness

6 What Is and Is Not in Question in Confessions XII
6.1Time and the Prophetic ‘Letter’
6.2How Timelessness Will Illuminate Time

7 Cohesion to God, Inhesion of the Flesh: Augustine’s Caelum Intellectuale
7.1Axiology and Temporality Revisited
7.2Augustine’s Hyper-Heavenly (Caelum Caeli)
7.3Timelessness and the Root-Verb Haerere
7.4More on Augustine’s Root-Verb Haerere

8 Corpus et Anima: The Duplicity of Praesens from Confessions X
8.1“A Body and a Soul Are Present in Me” (Conf. X.6)
8.2The Sense of Anima, the Sense of Animus (Conf. X.7)
8.3“Cattle and Birds Possess Memory” (Conf. X.17)
8.4Excursus: Time Is in the Beasts
8.5The Root-Sense of Anima and Animus (Conf. X–XII)

9 Physical Movement and Mutive Times: Augustine’s Materia Informis
9.1Informitas and Timelessness (Conf. XII.6)
9.2“Times are Produced by the Movements of Things” (Conf. XII.8)
9.3The Register of ‘Mutive Times’ in Confessions XII
9.4The Evidence for ‘Mutive Times’ in Confessions XII
9.5Excursus on Logical Precedence (Conf. XII.29)
9.6Excursus on Sensual ‘Outness’ (Epist. 137)

PART III
A Sensualist Interpretation of Confessions XI

10 Intimacy with the Flesh Is Intimacy with Time (Conf. XI–XII)
10.1“Words Begun and Ended, Sounding in Times” (Conf. XII.27)
10.2Familiaritas Carnis and Familiaritas Temporis (Conf. XI.14)

11 Times and Time from Augustine’s Eternity-Meditation (Conf. XI.3–13)
11.1Time, Times, and a Proto-Distentio (Conf. XI.11–13)
11.2Imago, 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)
12.1The Soul’s Capacity to Sense Time (Conf. XI.15–16)
12.2“A Long Time Cannot Become Long ...” (Conf. XI.11)
12.3The 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)
13.1Praesens Tempus and a Sense of Temporal Intervals (Conf. XI.15–16)
13.2Times 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)
13.4Vagaries of Motion and the Introduction of Dilation (Conf. XI.24–26)
13.5Sensation 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)

ENVOI
Time Exceeds Us because Time Is in Us

Appendices
1. Remarks on Plotinus, Aristotle, Sextus Empiricus and Augustine
2. Augustine and the Paris Condemnations of 1277
3. Pierre Gassendi’s Metaphysical Confession of Time
4. Thomas Hobbes’s Physical Confession of Time

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