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| Conversations About the End of Time | 
 enlarge | Authors: Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-claude Carriere, Jean Delumeau
Creators: Cathernie David, Frederic Lenoir, Jean-philippe De Tonnac
Publisher: Fromm Intl
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 1679346
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1
ISBN: 0880642173
Dewey Decimal Number: 001.9
EAN: 9780880642170
ASIN: 0880642173
Publication Date: April 2000
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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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