Eternity
A History
Eternity
A History
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This edited volume aims at providing a history of the philosophical explorations of eternity, alongside a series of short essays, called reflections, on the role of eternity and its representations in literature, religion, language, liturgy, science, and music.
"The five essays Melamed (Johns Hopkins) has gathered trace concepts of, and controversies about, eternity as conceived in Platonic, medieval, modern, Kantian, and analytic philosophy. The collection is distinguished by its interdisciplinary approach. Each scholarly essay is followed by enticing "reflections" that extract philosophical claims from broader themes. Highlights include insights into divine love that emerge in Dante's portrayal of God's relation to time; arguments from ancient India that the language of the Vedas conveys timeless meaning; and descriptions of eternity in the verse of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish...Narrower than an introduction, decidedly philosophical in its interdisciplinary forays, yet historical in substance, this careful, usefully synoptic book...warrants a look, particularly by specialists." -- CHOICE
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics (OUP, 2013), and editor/co-editor of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (2011), Spinoza and German Idealism (2012), and The Young Spinoza (OUP, 2015).
"The five essays Melamed (Johns Hopkins) has gathered trace concepts of, and controversies about, eternity as conceived in Platonic, medieval, modern, Kantian, and analytic philosophy. The collection is distinguished by its interdisciplinary approach. Each scholarly essay is followed by enticing "reflections" that extract philosophical claims from broader themes. Highlights include insights into divine love that emerge in Dante's portrayal of God's relation to time; arguments from ancient India that the language of the Vedas conveys timeless meaning; and descriptions of eternity in the verse of Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish...Narrower than an introduction, decidedly philosophical in its interdisciplinary forays, yet historical in substance, this careful, usefully synoptic book...warrants a look, particularly by specialists." -- CHOICE
Yitzhak Y. Melamed is a Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Spinoza's Metaphysics (OUP, 2013), and editor/co-editor of Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise: A Critical Guide (2011), Spinoza and German Idealism (2012), and The Young Spinoza (OUP, 2015).