Awaiting Apocalypse
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 5, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780312224257
Subjects: Wonders And Curiosities; Religion; Philosophy; Controversial Knowledge; Religious; Social Science / General; General; Apocalyptic literature; End of the world; History and criticism
Description: "The current obsession with the 'end of the millennium' illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot simply be dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking.

Opening a path of understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the sceptical predicates of modern science, Awaiting Apocalypse shows how ordinary and extra-ordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning."--BOOK JACKET.