Conversations About the End of Time
by Stephen Jay Gould, Jean-Claude Carrière, Jean Delumeau, Umberto Eco
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How has the Western world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is ment by the end of the world? What have science and philosophy got to say about the end of time? Why do people suffer? What is hell? Is time cyclical or linear? These are just a few of the questions tackled by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Carriere and Jean-Paul Delumeau in a series of conversations. Mixing the religious with the profane show more and the deeply profound with the humorous, the book explores anything and everything from the concept of time as embedded in language to the reasons why war become an industrialized phenomenon in the 20th century. show lessTags
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Very cool especially since I don't usually finish non-fiction.
ISBN: 0140285148
> ENTRETIENS SUR IA FIN DES TEMPS, avec Jean-Claude Carrière, Jean Delumeau, Umberto Eco et Stephen Jay Gould. — C’est une évidence, la fin de siècle favorise les interrogations et les inquiétudes les plus diverses sur la fin du monde et la fin des temps. À moins d’ironiser sur les fausses prophéties des contemporains, il n’est pas inutile de rappeler qu’il y a là une mythologie qui a toute une histoire, comme le montre Umberto Eco dans cet ouvrage composé de quatre entretiens dont la teneur est fort différente. Ix* texte le plus éclairant est celui de l'historien de la peur Jean Delumeau. qui réussit à merveille à mettre en scène les diverses traditions religieuses liées à l’idée de fin des temps. Évoquant show more le rapport entre le judaïsme ancien et le christianisme, il explique avec clarté la signification de l’Apocalypse et montre comment les croyances millénaristes sont inséparables d'une histoire religieuse fort ancienne. Paris, Fayard, 1999, 336 p., 125 F. (O. M.)
—Esprit No. 257 (10) (Octobre 1999), p. 231 … ; (Source),
URL : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/lindenberg-judith/gerard-genette-figures-iv-974... show less
—Esprit No. 257 (10) (Octobre 1999), p. 231 … ; (Source),
URL : https://esprit.presse.fr/article/lindenberg-judith/gerard-genette-figures-iv-974... show less
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Pain, sadly, has always been far easier to visualise than pleasure, a design fault in the central nervous system that reflects our brutalised past, but from which we may now be emerging, thanks to a longevity our forebears would have found impossible to grasp and an entertainment culture with a huge panoply of recreational drugs.
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Born in New York City in 1941, Stephen Jay Gould received his B.A. from Antioch College in New York in 1963 and a Ph.D. in paleontology from Columbia University in 1967. Gould spent most of his career as a professor at Harvard University and curator of invertebrate paleontology at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. His research was mainly in show more the evolution and speciation of land snails. Gould was a leading proponent of the theory of punctuated equilibrium. This theory holds that few evolutionary changes occur among organisms over long periods of time, and then a brief period of rapid changes occurs before another long, stable period of equilibrium sets in. Gould also made significant contributions to the field of evolutionary developmental biology, most notably in his work, Ontogeny and Phylogeny. An outspoken advocate of the scientific outlook, Gould had been a vigorous defender of evolution against its creation-science opponents in popular magazines focusing on science. He wrote a column for Natural History and has produced a remarkable series of books that display the excitement of science for the layperson. Among his many awards and honors, Gould won the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His titles include; Ever Since Darwin, The Panda's Thumb, Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle, Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory and Full House: The Spread of Excellence from Plato to Darwin. Stephen Jay Gould died on May 20, 2002, following his second bout with cancer. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Umberto Eco was born in Alessandria, Italy on January 5, 1932. He received a doctorate of philosophy from the University of Turin in 1954. His first book, Il Problema Estetico in San Tommaso, was an extension of his doctoral thesis on St. Thomas Aquinas and was published in 1956. His first novel, The Name of the Rose, was published in 1980 and won show more the Premio Strega and the Premio Anghiar awards in 1981. In 1986, it was adapted into a movie starring Sean Connery. His other works include Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, Baudolino, The Prague Cemetery, and Numero Zero. He also wrote children's books and more than 20 nonfiction books including Serendipities: Language and Lunacy. He taught philosophy and then semiotics at the University of Bologna. He also wrote weekly columns on popular culture and politics for L'Espresso. He died from cancer on February 19, 2016 at the age of 84. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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