Description: Further DetailsTitle: A Very Brief History of EternityCondition: NewISBN-10: 0691152500EAN: 9780691152509ISBN: 9780691152509Publisher: Princeton University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/26/2011Description: What 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.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 216mmItem Length: 140mmItem Weight: 340gAuthor: Carlos EireGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Philosophy & SpiritualityRelease Year: 2011 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: A Very Brief History of Eternity
Title: A Very Brief History of Eternity
ISBN-10: 0691152500
EAN: 9780691152509
ISBN: 9780691152509
Release Date: 09/26/2011
Release Year: 2011
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Philosophy & Spirituality
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Name: Very Brief History of Eternity
Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Civilization, General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Subject Area: Religion, Philosophy, History
Item Length: 8.4 in
Author: Carlos Eire
Item Width: 5.5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
