the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
The eternally deferred eschatologies of the left are consigned to the white trash-can of the future and leave a present tense with synthetic possibilities
Traditionally, eschatology has taken the form of an expectation of the future transcendence of the human condition for all mankind in exorably advancing history
lose any sense of eschatology, thus of teleology
The eschatological theme of the game bleeds into the reality, just as the boundaries of the map are blurred
on Eschaton
Referring at once to the persistence of eschatological discourse despite the failure of the prophesied apocalypse ever to arrive
followed the eschatological vision of Karl Marx
on the Bolsheviks in 1917
eschatological You-Are-There accounts of what it's like to be Bombed
That said, Schopenhauer’s eschatology, which Horkheimer shared, is not Marx’s. For Schopenhauer, there is no ultimate redemption, no punishment, no heaven, be it on or beyond Earth. There is, rather, pointlessness on a cosmic scale
V&V's NoCoat campaign was a case-study in the eschatology of emotional appeals. It towered, a kind of Überad, casting a shaggy shadow back across a whole century of broadcast persuasion.
Ivan Karamazov's howl of anguish can be directed at the atheist architects of the radiant city as much as at God, since what can any revolutionary eschatology, no matter how glorious, do about the agonies of those who are long dead?
Where innovation is a theory of rebirth, we can think of disruption as an eschatology: an economic theology of the end of things
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directing the enthusiasms of Orthodoxy against ‘Christ-killers’, fever dreams of blood-drinking Jews, icons and eschatology and mysticism in the service of depravity
on the Black Hundreds
There are those for whom such apophatic Marxist eschatology is dereliction.
We experience the breach and inrush of monstrous apocalypse with a vivid affect. The horror of an end; a relief; a prurience; car-crash fascination on eschatological scale
the heavy eschatological issues that lie just below the surface of religion are simply too icky and troublesome to think about
Bunin, a spry old gentleman, with a rich and unchaste vocabulary, was puzzled by my irresponsiveness to the hazel grouse of which I had had enough in my childhood and exasperated by my refusal to discuss eschatological matters
This end of History is essentially a Christian eschatology.
We must discern here between eschatology and teleology, even if the stakes of such a difference risk constantly being effaced in the most fragile and slight insubstantiality
the eschatological themes of the "end of history," of the "end of Marxism," of the "end of philosophy," of the "ends of man," of the "last man" and so forth
debt names something basic to the experience of social being as a dimension of historicity, even in its most eschatological form
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the idea that the boy may be the last god--an eschatological plot that is a kind of more philosophical version of The Terminator
Into her plot of domestic eschatology enters a vague series of intrigues
The general mood is eschatological. We parade the world's end before our closed eyes.
on the average person's tendency to worry
It is also one of those that most clearly affirm the eschatological postulate of an ‘end of politics’, at the cost of profound obscurity as regards the notion of power (and, consequently, the state)
on the Communist Manifesto
The news is only vaguely less eschatological
rejection of the eschatological notion of the Future which Marxism inherited from the Christian tradition
Turing's humor also provides a destination, or an eschatology that the Invisible Hand's humor lacks. Turing's algorithms could inherit the world in a way that the Hand could not.
catastrophic climate change. A millennial eschatology has returned, taking the place of false positivism and pseudo-rational prognoses