Author : Claire Sartin
Publisher : Alpha Book Publisher
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 28,56 MB
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A collection of short written works exploring a multitude of theories and aspects of an apocalypse. The variety of world-ending scenarios also showcases death with a comedic flare. Characters span across different cultures but all feel the cold grip of fear, death and apocalyptic tragedy.
Author : Matthew Barrett Gross
Publisher : Prometheus Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1616145749
During the first dozen years of the twenty-first century, apocalyptic anticipation in America has leapt from the cultish to the mainstream. Today, nearly 60 percent of Americans believe that the events foretold in the book of Revelation will come true. But many secular readers also seem hungry for catastrophe and have propelled books about peak oil, global warming, and the end of civilization into bestsellers. How did we come to live in a culture obsessed by the belief that the end is near? The Last Myth explains why apocalyptic beliefs are surging within the American mainstream today. Demonstrating that our expectation of the end of the world is a surprisingly recent development in human thought, the book reveals the profound influence of apocalyptic thinking on America’s past, present, and future.
Author : Claire Sartin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,92 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Death
ISBN :
A collection of works that explores the many facets of death, society's inevitable doom, and the many different possibilities of an apocalypse.
Author : Umberto Eco
Publisher :
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 13,85 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN :
How has the Western world responded in the past to repeated claims that the end of the world is nigh? How do different religions understand what is ment by the end of the world? What have science and philosophy got to say about the end of time? Why do people suffer? What is hell? Is time cyclical or linear? These are just a few of the questions tackled by Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean Carriere and Jean-Paul Delumeau in a series of conversations. Mixing the religious with the profane and the deeply profound with the humorous, the book explores anything and everything from the concept of time as embedded in language to the reasons why war become an industrialized phenomenon in the 20th century.
Author : J L Schellenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 16,87 MB
Release : 2024-08-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0198912323
In this book, J. L. Schellenberg argues that humanity has developed spiritually and morally in a way that would have been reflected in Christian doctrine if that doctrine had been inspired by a good and all-knowing God, and that Christian doctrine cannot therefore be related to such a God in the way that it purports to be.
Author : Michael Trask
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 26,27 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501752456
Following the 1960s, that decade's focus on consciousness-raising transformed into an array of intellectual projects far afield of movement politics. The mind's powers came to preoccupy a range of thinkers and writers: ethicists pursuing contractual theories of justice, radical ecologists interested in the paleolithic brain, seventies cultists, and the devout of both evangelical and New Age persuasions. In Ideal Minds, Michael Trask presents a boldly revisionist argument about the revival of subjectivity in postmodern American culture, connecting familiar figures within the seventies intellectual landscape who share a commitment to what he calls "neo-idealism" as a weapon in the struggle against discredited materialist and behaviorist worldviews. In a heterodox intellectual and literary history of the 1970s, Ideal Minds mixes ideas from cognitive science, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, deep ecology, political theory, science fiction, neoclassical economics, and the sociology of religion. Trask also delves into the decade's more esoteric branches of learning, including Scientology, anarchist theory, rapture prophesies, psychic channeling, and neo-Malthusianism. Through this investigation, Trask argues that a dramatic inflation in the value of consciousness and autonomy beginning in the 1970s accompanied a growing argument about the state's inability to safeguard such values. Ultimately, the thinkers Trask analyzes—John Rawls, Arne Naess, L. Ron Hubbard, Hal Lindsey, Philip Dick, Ursula Le Guin, Edward Abbey, William Burroughs, John Irving, and James Merrill—found alternatives to statism in conditions that would lend intellectual support to the consolidation of these concepts in the radical free market ideologies of the 1980s.
Author : Morton D. Paley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 12,54 MB
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191584681
The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves.
Author : Jeremy Westerman
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,82 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1543464475
Gage Moorland, a Delta Force leader’s son, gets recruited by a military academy’s secret side. The brightest, most capable cadets are recruited to go to space to hopefully find ways to beat the reptilians. The reptilians have been humanity’s nemesis for eons, and this battle comes to the fore as Gage must meet a personal challenge from the head reptilian over the earth and moon. Gage’s innovative training from the age of twelve—he is now seventeen—gives him a shot at overcoming reptilian dominance. The Serpent’s control over humanity is exposed through analysis of secret societies and how they seek to permanently enslave mankind through the New World Order. CERN’s influence is also exposed with their plans to resurrect their former god Nimrod so that he can either become the antichrist or the beast of Revelations. His resurrection is set for September 23, 2017, with Revelation 12’s fulfillment in the stars.
Author : David Arnold
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 43,45 MB
Release : 2022-03-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0593202244
New York Times bestseller David Arnold's most ambitious novel to date; Station Eleven meets The 5th Wave in a genre-smashing story of survival, hope, and love amid a ravaged earth. When a deadly Fly Flu sweeps the globe, it leaves a shell of the world that once was. Among the survivors are eighteen-year-old Nico and her dog, on a voyage devised by Nico's father to find a mythical portal; a young artist named Kit, raised in an old abandoned cinema; and the enigmatic Deliverer, who lives Life after Life in an attempt to put the world back together. As swarms of infected Flies roam the earth, these few survivors navigate the woods of post-apocalyptic New England, meeting others along the way, each on their own quest to find life and love in a world gone dark. The Electric Kingdom is a sweeping exploration of art, storytelling, eternal life, and above all, a testament to the notion that even in an exterminated world, one person might find beauty in another.
Author : Charles B. Strozier
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,88 MB
Release : 2014-08-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231158998
Charles B. Strozier's college lost sixty-eight alumni in the tragedy of 9/11, and the many courses he has taught on terrorism and related topics since have attracted dozens of survivors and family members. A practicing psychoanalyst in Manhattan, Strozier has also accepted many seared by the disaster into his care. In some ways, the grief he has encountered has felt familiar; in other ways, unprecedented. Compelled to investigate its unique character further, he launched a fascinating study into the conscious and unconscious meaning of the event, both for those who were physically close to the attack and for those who witnessed it beyond the immediate space of Ground Zero. Based on the testimony of survivors, bystanders, spectators, and victim's friends and families, Until the Fires Stopped Burning brings much-needed clarity to the conscious and unconscious meaning of 9/11 and its relationship to historical disaster, apocalyptic experience, unnatural death, and the psychological endurance of trauma. Strozier interprets and contextualizes the memories of witnesses and compares their encounter with 9/11 to the devastation of Hiroshima, Auschwitz, Katrina, and other events Kai Erikson has called a "new species of trouble" in the world. Organizing his study around "zones of sadness" in New York, Strozier powerfully evokes the multiple places in which his respondents confronted 9/11 while remaining sensitive to the personal, social, and cultural differences of these experiences. Most important, he distinguishes between 9/11 as an apocalyptic event (which he affirms it is not;rather, it is a monumental event), and 9/11 as an apocalyptic experience, which is crucial to understanding the act's affect on American life and a still-evolving culture of fear in the world.
