Conversations about the End of Time

Umberto Eco, Stephen Jay Gould, Jean-Claude Carriere, Jean Delumeau — 2001

Four intellectuals and scientists--Stephen Jay Gould, Umberto Eco, Jean-Claude CarriFre, and Jean Delumeau--share their reflections on millennial conciousness, probing the origins of apocalyptic fascination, prehistoric cataclysms like the extinction of the dinosaurs, and religious views on the subject. Reprint.