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9780333741740

Awaiting Apocalypse

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  • ISBN13:

    9780333741740

  • ISBN10:

    0333741749

  • Edition: 6th
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-06-01
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Press

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Author Biography

Paul Corcoran is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Prologues to the End 1(10)
Part I: Obsession with Time
Thinking about the End
11(10)
Fatal Attractions
21(18)
The Borders of Apocalypse
39(10)
Smile: It's Party Time!
49(14)
Part II: Apocalypse and the Collapse of Time
The Meaning of Apocalypse
63(4)
Historical Endings
67(16)
Ordinary Time, Ordinary Endings
83(10)
Endless History
93(18)
Part III: Empires of Time
Identifying with Time
111(6)
Signs of the Time
117(18)
Part IV: Waiting for the End
A Metaphysics for the Mean Time
135(18)
The Sense of Time
153(22)
Freedom: Nothing Left to Lose
175(6)
Notes 181(28)
Index 209

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