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How has the Western Christian world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is meant 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 questions tackled by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Carriere and Jean-Paul Delumeau in a series of thought-provoking conversations. Mixing the religious with the profane and the deeply profound with the humorous, the conversations explore anything and everything from the concept of time as embedded in language to the reasons why war became an industrialised phenomenon in the 20th century.
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Stephen Jay Gould is the author of The Panda's Thumb and Umberto Eco of The Name of the Rose. Jean Claude Carrière has written screenplays for Milos Forman and Luis Buñuel. Jean Delumeau teaches history at the Collège de France.
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
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- PublisherPenguin Putnam
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0713993634
- ISBN 13 9780713993639
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages240
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Umberto Eco - S.J. Gould - J.-C. Carri?re - Jean Delumeau. Produced and edited by C. David, et al. Tr. by Maclean and Pearson. Allen Lane-The Penguin Press. 1999.
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