{"product_id":"catherine-david-el-fin-de-los-tiempos-9788422682141","title":"El Fin de los Tiempos","description":"A mind-expanding discussion of millenarianism by four brilliant thinkers — now in paperback.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is nothing special about the year 2000, yet the start of the third millennium proved a focus for many deep anxieties and expectations. Four of the world's boldest and most celebrated thinkers offer a vast range of insights into how we make sense of paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on dating the Creation, evolutionary \"deep time,\" and the need for ecological ethics on a human scale; Umberto Eco, novelist, medievalist, and Web fanatic, on the brave new world of cyberspace and its likely impact on memory, cultural continuity, and access to knowledge; screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière on \"the art of slowness\" and attitudes toward time in non-Western cultures; and Catholic historian Jean Delumeau on how the Western imagination has always been haunted by ideas of the Apocalypse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Jay Gould\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Panda's Thumb\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003cb\u003eUmberto Eco\u003c\/b\u003e of \u003ci\u003eThe Name of the Rose\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cb\u003eJean Claude Carrière\u003c\/b\u003e has written screenplays for Milos Forman and Luis Buñuel. \u003cb\u003eJean Delumeau\u003c\/b\u003e teaches history at the Collège de France.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you have to read one book about the millennium, this is it!\" (The Times [London])\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The insights these well-rounded scholars provide are thought-provoking and revelatory.\" (Booklist)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating, mind-expanding gallop through theology, paleontology, calendrical history, millenarianism, philosophy and cyberspace.\" (Sunday Herald [London])","brand":"momoxbooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53920081903958,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/catherine-david-el-fin-de-los-tiempos-9788422682141","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}