{"product_id":"a-very-brief-history-of-eternity-9780691133577","title":"A Very Brief History of Eternity","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of Waiting for Snow in Havana  a brilliant cultural history of the idea of eternity  What is eternity? Is it anything other than a purely abstract concept  totally unrelated to our lives? A mere hope? A frightfully uncertain horizon? Or is it a certainty  shared by priest and scientist alike  and an essential element in all human relations?  In A Very Brief History of Eternity  Carlos Eire  the historian and National Book Awardwinning author of Waiting for Snow in Havana  has written a brilliant history of eternity in Western culture. Tracing the idea from ancient times to the present  Eire examines the rise and fall of five different conceptions of eternity  exploring how they developed and how they have helped shape individual and collective self-understanding.  A book about lived beliefs and their relationship to social and political realities  A Very Brief History of Eternity is also about unbelief  and the tangled and often rancorous relation between faith and reason. Its subject is the largest subject of all  one that has taxed minds great and small for centuries  and will forever be of human interest  intellectually  spiritually  and viscerally.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953288929333,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691133573","price":52.42,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691133577.jpg?v=1788184183","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/a-very-brief-history-of-eternity-9780691133577","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}