LEADER 03553nam 2200721Ia 450 001 9910456474603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-45855-8 010 $a9786612458552 010 $a1-4008-3187-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400831876 035 $a(CKB)2550000000000967 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000344217 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11232310 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000344217 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306660 035 $a(PQKB)10510136 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000593994 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12245405 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000593994 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10547821 035 $a(PQKB)10725356 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC475856 035 $a(OCoLC)593209716 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43069 035 $a(DE-B1597)453689 035 $a(OCoLC)979632163 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400831876 035 $a(PPN)187266328 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL475856 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10364790 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL245855 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000000967 100 $a20090608d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA very brief history of eternity$b[electronic resource] /$fCarlos Eire 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2010 215 $axv, 268 p. $cill 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-691-15250-0 311 $a0-691-13357-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tI. Big Bang, Big Sleep, Big Problem -- $tII. Eternity Conceived -- $tIII. Eternity Overflowing -- $tIV. Eternity Reformed -- $tV. From Eternity to Five-Year Plans -- $tVI. Not Here, Not Now, Not Ever -- $tAppendix: Common Conceptions of Eternity -- $tNotes -- $tEternity: A Basic Bibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aWhat is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept, totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty, shared by priest and scientist alike, and an essential element in all human relations? In A Very Brief History of Eternity, Carlos Eire, the historian and National Book Award-winning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana, has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present, Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity, exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding. A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities, A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief, and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all, one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries, and will forever be of human interest, intellectually, spiritually, and viscerally. 606 $aEternity$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aCivilization, Western 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEternity$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aCivilization, Western. 676 $a236/.21 700 $aEire$b Carlos M. N$0615812 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456474603321 996 $aA very brief history of eternity$92488833 997 $aUNINA