{"product_id":"apocalypse-theory-and-the-ends-of-the-world-paperback-softback-9780631190820","title":"Apocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World (Paperback \/ softback) 9780631190820","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eApocalypse Theory and the Ends of the World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMalcolm Bull (Edited by), M Bull (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780631190820, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 6 May 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.4 x 2.3 cm, 0.482 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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\".\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eList of Contributors vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 On Making Ends Meet 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMalcolm Bull\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART I\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 How Time Acquired a Consummation 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNorman Cohn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 ‘Upon Whom the Ends of the Ages have Come’: Apocalyptic Interpretation of the New Testament 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Rowland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 The End of the World and the Beginning of Christendom 58\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernard McGinn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Pattern and Purpose in History in the Later Medieval and Renaissance Periods 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarjorie Reeves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Seventeenth-Century Millenarianism 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRichard Popkin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART II\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Secular Apocalypse: Prophets and Apocalyptics at the End of the Eighteenth Century 137\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElinor Shaffer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Saint-Simonian Industrialism as the End of History: Auguste Comte’s Vision on the Teleology of Universal History 159\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLaurence Dickey\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Apocalypse, Millennium and Utopia Today 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKrishan Kumar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePART III\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Versions of Apocalypse: Kant, Derrida, Foucault 227\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristopher Norris\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Waiting for the End 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrank Kermode\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Adorno as Lateness Itself 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward W. 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