Awaiting Apocalypse
Description
The current obsession with the end of the millennium illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply 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, this work aims to show how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning.
Keywords
PhilosophyReligionSocial Science
2000Book
Author(s)Paul E. Corcoran
PublisherMacmillan
ISBN9780333741740
LanguageEnglish
