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Hardcover L'Éternité par les Astres: Édition en grands caractères [French] [Large Print] Book

ISBN: 2384556622

ISBN13: 9782384556625

L'Éternité par les Astres: Édition en grands caractères [French] [Large Print]

"Et puis, jusqu'ici, le pass pour nous repr sentait la barbarie, et l'avenir signifiait progr s, science, bonheur, illusion Ce pass a vu sur tous nos globes-sosies les plus brillantes civilisations dispara tre, sans laisser une trace, et elles dispara tront encore sans en laisser davantage. L'avenir reverra sur des milliards de terres les ignorances, les sottises, les cruaut s de nos vieux ges "

Auguste Blanqui, grand penseur socialiste du XIXe si cle, nous offre ici une r flexion m taphysique crite dans des conditions d'isolement extr me. Cet essai en se basant sur la cosmologie met en lumi re de puissants questionnements philosophiques sur l' ternit et la place de homme au coeur de l'univers. Blanqui y r v le l'utopie du progr s et la monotonie universelle de l'humanit vou e r p ter sans fin les m mes erreurs. Dans un monde d senchant , l' re des r seaux sociaux et des doubles num riques, ce texte proph tise la crise de sens de notre monde contemporain et notre vertige existentiel actuel. Il a su inspirer les plus grands penseurs de Friedrich Nietzsche Walter Benjamin en passant par Jorge Luis Borges et Adolfo Bioy Casares. Un classique red couvrir d'urgence

English description: Written during imprisonment in the nineteenth century, this extraordinary philosophical essay explores the unsettling consequences of an infinite universe.

In Eternity Through the Stars, Auguste Blanqui develops a radical cosmological vision: if the universe is infinite and composed of finite elements, then every possible combination of matter must recur endlessly. Across countless worlds identical to our own, the same lives, the same civilizations, and the same tragedies repeat throughout eternity.

From this startling premise emerges a powerful meditation on time, destiny, and the illusion of historical progress. Blanqui challenges the comforting belief that humanity moves steadily toward improvement, suggesting instead a universe governed by repetition and cosmic determinism.

Both philosophical speculation and visionary reflection, this remarkable work anticipated later ideas about parallel worlds and the multiverse, influencing thinkers and writers from Friedrich Nietzsche to Walter Benjamin and Jorge Luis Borges.

A striking and original classic of nineteenth-century French thought, Eternity Through the Stars continues to fascinate readers interested in metaphysics, cosmology, and the existential implications of infinity.

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