The end of time David Horowitz,
Publisher: San Francisco, CA : Encounter Books, 2005.
ISBN: 1594030804
DDC: 973.92092
LCC: E840.8
Edition: (acid-free paper)
Summary:
Three 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 an 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 here 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 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."
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