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Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World
Malcolm Bull (Edited by), M Bull (Author)
9780631190820, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 6 May 1995
320 pages
22.9 x 15.4 x 2.3 cm, 0.482 kg
In this volume, historians, critics, and theorists review 3000 years of apocalyptic thought. Tracing the history of millenarianism from ancient times to the 17th century, each theorist investigates the modern and postmodern debates in which apocalyptic themes are recirculated. From Zoroaster to Derrida, thinkers have used the dramatic language of apocalyptic to uncover the ends of the world, exploring the relationship between ends as purposes and ends as terminations, and the connections between religious and secular versions of apocalyptic theory. In the resulting interplay of closure and disclosure, they have sought to find purpose to lift, and a conclusion to history. As the millennium draws to a close, questions about the end of the world seem increasingly urgent. This volume then is a guide to these bewildering questions and discourses of the limit. It should be of interest to anyone participating in contemporary debates in cultural studies, religious studies, literary theory, postmodernist philosophy and history. Malcolm Bull is the co-author (with Keith Lockhard) of "Seeking a Sanctuary: Seventh-Day Adventism and the American Dream".
List of Contributors vii Acknowledgements viii 1 On Making Ends Meet 1 PART I 2 How Time Acquired a Consummation 21 3 ‘Upon Whom the Ends of the Ages have Come’: Apocalyptic Interpretation of the New Testament 38 4 The End of the World and the Beginning of Christendom 58 5 Pattern and Purpose in History in the Later Medieval and Renaissance Periods 90 6 Seventeenth-Century Millenarianism 112 PART II 7 Secular Apocalypse: Prophets and Apocalyptics at the End of the Eighteenth Century 137 8 Saint-Simonian Industrialism as the End of History: Auguste Comte’s Vision on the Teleology of Universal History 159 9 Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia Today 200 PART III 10 Versions of Apocalypse: Kant, Derrida, Foucault 227 11 Waiting for the End 250 12 Adorno as Lateness Itself 264 Index 282
Malcolm Bull
Norman Cohn
Christopher Rowland
Bernard McGinn
Marjorie Reeves
Richard Popkin
Elinor Shaffer
Laurence Dickey
Krishan Kumar
Christopher Norris
Frank Kermode
Edward W. Said
Subject Areas: Literature: history & criticism [DS]
