Awaiting Apocalypse

Type

Book

Authors

Paul Corcoran

ISBN 10

0312224257

ISBN 13

9780313287428

Tags

Ancient & Controversial Knowledge, Religious, Social Sciences, Philosophy, Religious Studies

Description

The current obsession with the "end of the millennium" illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking. Opening a path or understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the skeptical predicates of modern science, Awaiting Apocalypse shows how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning. - from Amzon

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