{"product_id":"eternity-by-the-stars-louis-auguste-blanqui-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\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1971559350\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781971559353\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Eris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Louis-Auguste Blanqui","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48871436058879,"sku":"9781971559353","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eternity-by-the-stars-louis-auguste-blanqui-9781971559353","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}