| Conversations About the End of Time | 
 enlarge | Authors: Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Delumeau, Jean-claude Carriere
Creators: Ian Maclean, Roger Pearson
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 410329
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0140285148
EAN: 9780140285147
ASIN: 0140285148
Publication Date: July 27, 2000
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Amazon.co.uk Review
This discussion of some millennial themes consists of interviews with the principals followed by a certain amount of mutual comment and some final conclusions. Gould does his standard act about the arbitrariness of the millennium and the importance of the growth awareness of deep time--a sense of the vast age of the world and the universe is important to that perspective which might help us behave decently to each other. Carriere, a Christian intellectual, discussed the hopeful side of the Book of Revelations and the need for loving kindness. Delumeau talks about the end of the Kali Yuga and the balance of the role of Shiva and Vishnu in Hinduism and worries about the disappearance of tenses and moods in French--arguing that something is seriously lost if we can no longer think in the subjunctive Future Perfect. Eco is the star here, and says wonderfully phrased, paradoxical, but not especially memorable, things about how right all the others are; if anyone wants to know what the brightest and best think about the millennium, this is not a bad place to start--the stress on kindness as an ultimate human value cannot but be attractive. --Roz Kaveney
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| Customer Reviews:
A wonderful presentation of the role of time upon humanity April 3, 2001
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Four prominent figures of today's science and philosophy engage in a lucid and thorough discussion with 3 french journalists about the role of time throughout the human history. Each of the four authors, all experts in their field, presents the concepts of time and millenarianism, while attempting to provide us with an explanation about the collective belief that one day our world will end. The book is organized in four chapters and ends with a conclusion from each author. The covered subjects range from palaeontology, history, religion, even quantum mechanics. While the role of philosophy is mainly to ask questions, this collection of philosophical essays will provide one with a plethora of answers.
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