LEADER 03425nam 2200601Ia 450 001 9910954171303321 005 20250618191704.0 010 $a1-59403-080-4 010 $a1-59403-307-2 035 $a(CKB)1000000000032494 035 $a(OCoLC)60378448 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10080005 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000147040 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11136395 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000147040 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10010945 035 $a(PQKB)10787345 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3027837 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3027837 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10080005 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000032494 100 $a20050210d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe end of time /$fDavid Horowitz 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aSan Francisco, CA $cEncounter Books$d2005 215 $a1 online resource (165 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a1-59403-129-0 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Going Home -- Life Is a Hospital -- On Earth As It Is in Heaven -- Being Here -- Into the Future. 330 $aThree 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. 606 $aDeath$xPsychological aspects 606 $aDeath$xMoral and ethical aspects 606 $aCancer$xPatients$zUnited States$vBiography 606 $aPolitical activists$zUnited States$vBiography 615 0$aDeath$xPsychological aspects. 615 0$aDeath$xMoral and ethical aspects. 615 0$aCancer$xPatients 615 0$aPolitical activists 676 $a973.92/092 676 $aB 700 $aHorowitz$b David$f1939-2025.$01826629 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910954171303321 996 $aThe end of time$94395890 997 $aUNINA