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020			_z9781594031298
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050		4	_aE840.8.H67 -- A3 2005eb
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100	1		_aHorowitz, David.
245	1	4	_aThe End of Time.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aSan Francisco : _bEncounter Books, _c2005.
264		4	_c©2005.
300			_a1 online resource (165 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntro -- Contents -- Going Home -- Life Is a Hospital -- On Earth As It Is in Heaven -- Being Here -- Into the Future.
520			_aThree days after terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, David Horowitz discovered that he had prostate cancer. As America was rebuilding, he emerged from months of treatment with a “reprieve" from his disease. He emerged as well with this remarkable book of hard won insights about how we get to our end and what we learn along the way. A stunning departure from the polemics and social criticism that have made Horowitz one of our most controversial public intellectuals, The End of Time is a wide ranging, unflinching and lyrical meditation on subjects ranging from what parents inadvertently teach us in their deaths, to the forbidding reality of the cancer ward and the way in which figures like Mohammed Atta use death to become gods of their own mad creation. Hovering protectively over these ruminations and Horowitz's personal crisis is his wife April, whose stubborn love reached into the heart of his medical darkness and led him back toward the light of this work. The End of Time is also about the redemptive power of language and literature. One of the writers appearing in its text is the Catholic philosopher and scientist Blaise Pascal, whose Pensees functions as Horowitz's model and guide. Citing Pascal's famous observation that “the heart has its reasons of which reason does not know," Horowitz writes: “I do not have the faith of Pascal, but I know its feeling. While reason tells me the pictures will stop, I will be unafraid when death comes. I will feel my way toward the horizon in front of me, and my heart will take me home.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aHorowitz, David, -- 1939-.
650		0	_aHorowitz, David, -- 1939- -- Health.
650		0	_aHorowitz, David, -- 1939- -- Family.
650		0	_aDeath -- Psychological aspects.
650		0	_aDeath -- Moral and ethical aspects.
650		0	_aCancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography.
650		0	_aPolitical activists -- United States -- Biography.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aHorowitz, David _tThe End of Time _dSan Francisco : Encounter Books,c2005 _z9781594031298
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3027837 _zClick to View
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