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Awaiting Apocalypse

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  • © 2000

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  1. Paul Corcoran

    1. University of Adelaide, South Australia

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Prologues to the End

    1. Prologues to the End

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 1-7

  3. Obsession with Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Thinking about the End

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 11-20

    3. Fatal Attractions

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 21-38

    4. The Borders of Apocalypse

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 39-48

    5. Smile, It’s Party Time!

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 49-59

  4. Apocalypse and the Collapse of Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-61
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    2. The Meaning of Apocalypse

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 63-65

    3. Historical Endings

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 67-82

    4. Ordinary Time, Ordinary Endings

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 83-91

    5. Endless History

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 93-107

  5. Empires of Time

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 109-109
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    2. Identifying with Time

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 111-116

    3. Signs of the Time

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 117-130

  6. Waiting for the End

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 132-132
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    2. A Metaphysics for the Mean Time

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 135-152

    3. The Sense of Time

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 153-173

    4. Freedom: Nothing Left to Lose

      • Paul Corcoran
      Pages 175-180

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 181-212
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About this book

The current obsession with the 'end of the millennium' illustrates the enduring power of the idea of endings. This fascination cannot be simply dismissed as faulty logic, a form of madness, or a primitive survival of childish thinking. Opening a path of understanding between ancient conceptions of meaning and the sceptical predicates of modern science, Awaiting Apocalypse shows how ordinary and extraordinary endings are inherent in the narrative structure of human experience and the sedimentation of that experience as historical meaning.

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  • University of Adelaide, South Australia

    Paul Corcoran

About the author

PAUL CORCORAN is Associate Professor of Politics at the University of Adelaide, South Australia. He is the author of Before Marx: Socialism and Communism in France, 1830-48.

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