03425nam 2200601Ia 450 991095417130332120250618191704.01-59403-080-41-59403-307-2(CKB)1000000000032494(OCoLC)60378448(CaPaEBR)ebrary10080005(SSID)ssj0000147040(PQKBManifestationID)11136395(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147040(PQKBWorkID)10010945(PQKB)10787345(MiAaPQ)EBC3027837(Au-PeEL)EBL3027837(CaPaEBR)ebr10080005(EXLCZ)99100000000003249420050210d2005 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrThe end of time /David Horowitz1st ed.San Francisco, CA Encounter Books20051 online resource (165 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-59403-129-0 Intro -- Contents -- Going Home -- Life Is a Hospital -- On Earth As It Is in Heaven -- Being Here -- Into the Future.Three days after terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, David Horowitz discovered that he had prostate cancer. As America was rebuilding, he emerged from months of treatment with a “reprieve" from his disease. He emerged as well with this remarkable book of hard won insights about how we get to our end and what we learn along the way. A stunning departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectuals, The End of Time is a wide ranging, unflinching and lyrical meditation on subjects ranging from what parents inadvertently teach us in their deaths, to the forbidding reality of the cancer ward and the way in which figures like Mohammed Atta use death to become gods of their own mad creation. Hovering protectively over these ruminations and Horowitz's personal crisis is his wife April, whose stubborn love reached into the heart of his medical darkness and led him back toward the light of this work. The End of Time is also about the redemptive power of language and literature. One of the writers appearing in its text is the Catholic philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal, whose Pensees functions as Horowitz's model and guide. Citing Pascal's famous observation that “the heart has its reasons of which reason does not know," Horowitz writes: “I do not have the faith of Pascal, but I know its feeling. While reason tells me the pictures will stop, I will be unafraid when death comes. I will feel my way toward the horizon in front of me, and my heart will take me home.DeathPsychological aspectsDeathMoral and ethical aspectsCancerPatientsUnited StatesBiographyPolitical activistsUnited StatesBiographyDeathPsychological aspects.DeathMoral and ethical aspects.CancerPatientsPolitical activists973.92/092BHorowitz David1939-2025.1826629MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910954171303321The end of time4395890UNINA