by Jean-Claude Carrière, Jean Delumeau, Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould · Fayard / Le Grand Livre du Mois · tapa dura · ISBN 9782702824023
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«Entretiens sur la fin des temps» is a book of conversations by Jean-Claude Carrière, Jean Delumeau, Umberto Eco and Stephen Jay Gould, in hardcover.
Conversations around millenarianism and the perception of time as the year 2000 approached: deep time and ecological ethics, new technologies and access to knowledge, slowness and other cultures, and the Apocalypse in the Western imagination. Science, philosophy, theology and history intertwine.
French edition of 1998, published by Fayard / Le Grand Livre du Mois, with 321 pages. Catherine David, Frédéric Lenoir and Jean-Philippe de Tonnac conduct the conversations.
A work for those interested in the history of religions, contemporary thought and the impact of technology on culture.
Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later given an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983).
