{"product_id":"eternity-by-the-stars-9781971559353","title":"Eternity by the Stars","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn a century of revolutions, final emancipations, and eschatological dreams, the shadowy figure of Louis-Auguste Blanqui--the perpetual insurgent--composed \u003ci\u003eEternity by the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e in 1871, imprisoned in the sea fortress of Fort du Taureau. From within his cell, Blanqui arrives at a stark and devastating proposition: given infinite time and a finite number of possible configurations, every event must recur, again and again, without end. Each life is lived an infinity of times across the expanse of the universe; nothing is ever concluded, nothing ever redeemed. History itself becomes a vast mechanism of repetition, indifferent to hope or despair. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once lucid and vertiginous, scientific and hallucinatory, Blanqui's text stands as one of the strangest cosmological speculations of the nineteenth century--and one of its most haunting. This critical edition presents the work in a new English translation, with an extended introduction by Frank Chouraqui, situating Blanqui within a wider constellation of thought from Friedrich Nietzsche to Walter Benjamin and Jorge Luis Borges, and tracing the afterlife of a text that continues to unsettle our understanding of time, action, and the modern condition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Louis-Auguste Blanqui\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Critical Century #1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971559353","brand":"Eris","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47663568453769,"sku":"9781971559353","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_63c92a89-540e-4c45-81ed-fe03ae4d6ca1.jpg?v=1784608865","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/eternity-by-the-stars-9781971559353","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}