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A Very Brief History of Eternity
Carlos Eire
Princeton University Press
November 2009
On Sale: November 1, 2009
286 pages
ISBN: 0691133573
EAN: 9780691133577
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction History
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 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.
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