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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aEire, Carlos
_eautore
245 1 2 _aA Very Brief History of Eternity /
_cCarlos Eire.
250 _aCourse Book
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2009
300 _a1 online resource :
_b16 halftones. 2 line illus. 2 tables.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tI. Big Bang, Big Sleep, Big Problem --
_tII. Eternity Conceived --
_tIII. Eternity Overflowing --
_tIV. Eternity Reformed --
_tV. From Eternity to Five-Year Plans --
_tVI. Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever --
_tAppendix: Common Conceptions of Eternity --
_tNotes --
_tEternity: A Basic Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding. A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities, A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief, and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all, one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries, and will forever be of human interest, intellectually, spiritually, and viscerally.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 0 _aCivilization, Western.
650 0 _aEternity
_xHistory of doctrines.
650 0 _aPhilosophy
_vGeneral.
650 0 _aReligion
_vChristian Theology
_vEschatology.
650 7 _aHISTORY / General.
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