A Very Brief History of Eternity by Eire, Carlos

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Princeton University Press, 2009. Hardcover. Very Good. Disclaimer:May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Princeton. 2009. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691133577. 268 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Leslie Flis. keywords: Philosophy Eternity. FROM THE PUBLISHER - What 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 short 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… Read More

Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. pp. xv, 268. 12mo. Quarter black cloth over navy-blue boards, gilt lettering to the spine. Near fine and housed in near fine dustjacket.