Imagine the ideal drinks party, with a sage in every corner, waiting to entertain you with their thoughts. The range of stimulating insights they have to offer is awesome. Four great witnesses of our times examine our preoccupations at the end of this millennium, cast back to the hopes and fears of previous generations and examine the challenges to come. Mixing the humorous with the profound, they tackle a vast range of fundamental questions which have long taxed the minds not only of the greatest thinkers, but most of the rest of us too!
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Umberto Eco is a best-selling novelist and Professor of Semiotics. Stephen Jay Gould is a best-selling writer and Professor of Geology & Zoology. Jean Delumeau is a Professor of History. Jean-Claude Carriere is a playwright/screenwriter.
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Paperback. Umberto Eco, Penguin Books Ltd. How has the Western world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is ment by the end of the world? What have science and philosophy got to say about the end of time? Why do people suffer? What is hell? Is time cyclical or linear? These are just a few of the questions tackled by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Carriere and Jean-Paul Delumeau in a series of conversations. Mixing the religious with the profane and the deeply profound with the humorous, the book explores anything and everything from the concept of time as embedded in language to the reasons why war become an industrialized phenomenon in the 20th century. Paperback. N° de réf. du vendeur 9780140285147-SECONDHAND
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Paperback. Etat : In good condition. New edition. Where does our fascination with the Apocalypse come from? Is time cyclical or linear? Can society survive without ideology? Can children be philosophers? The contributors examine these questions and other of our preoccupations, cast back to the fears and hopes of previous generations and examine the challenges to come. N° de réf. du vendeur 22833705
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