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A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World

by John Jeffries Martin

  • Hardback
  • 332 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.5 x 3.1 cm

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An award-winning historian's revisionary account of the early modern world, showing how apocalyptic ideas stimulated political, religious, and intellectual transformations__"A masterful synthesis of the prognostications of faith, knowledge, and politics on a global stage. Martin's book illuminates one of the enduring themes that shaped the medieval and early modern world."--Paula E. Findlen, Stanford University__ In this revelatory immersion into the apocalyptic, messianic, and millenarian ideas and movements that created the modern world, John Jeffries Martin performs a kind of empathic time travel, entering into the psyche, spirituality, and temporalities of a cast of historical actors in profound moments of discovery. He argues that religious faith--Christian, Jewish, and Muslim--did not oppose but rather fostered the making of a modern scientific spirit, buoyed along by a providential view of history and nature, and a deep conviction in the coming End of the World. Through thoughtful attention to the primary sources, Martin re-reads the Renaissance, excavating a religious foundation at the core of even the most radical empirical thinking. Familiar icons like Ibn Khaldūn, Columbus, Isaac Luria, and Francis Bacon emerge startlingly fresh and newly gleaned, agents of a history formerly untold and of a modern world made in the image of its imminent end.
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  • Title

    A Beautiful Ending: The Apocalyptic Imagination and the Making of the Modern World

  • Author

    John Jeffries Martin

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    May 2022

  • Weight

    618g

  • Page Count

    332

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.5 x 3.1 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300247329

  • ISBN-10

    030024732X

  • Eden Code

    5603648

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