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The adventure of the human intellect : self, society, and the divine in ancient world cultures / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ancient World: Comparative Histories
- THEi Wiley ebooks.
- THEi Wiley ebooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophy, Ancient.
- Intellect--History.
- Intellect.
- Intellectual life--History.
- Intellectual life.
- Self--History.
- Self.
- Thought and thinking--History.
- Thought and thinking.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- West Sussex, England : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Access using campus network via VPN at home (THEi Users Only).
- Summary:
- The Adventure of the Human Intellect presents the latest scholarship on the beginnings of intellectual history on a broad scope, encompassing ten eminent ancient or early civilizations from both the Old and New Worlds. * Borrows themes from The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man (1946), updating an old topic with a new approach and up-to-date theoretical underpinning, evidence, and scholarship * Provides a broad scope of studies, including discussion of highly developed ancient or early civilizations in China, India, West Asia, the Mediterranean, and the Americas * Examines the world view of ten ancient or early societies, reconstructed from their own texts, concerning the place of human beings in society and state, in nature and cosmos, in space and time, in life and death, and in relation to those in power and the world of the divine * Considers a diversity of sources representing a wide array of particular responses to differing environments, circumstances, and intellectual challenges * Reflects a more inclusive and nuanced historiographical attitude with respect to non-elites, gender, and local variations * Brings together leading specialists in the field, and is edited by an internationally renowned scholar
- Contents:
- A critique of the cognitive-historical thesis of the intellectual adventure / Francesca Rochberg
- The intellectual adventure of ancient man : revisiting a classic / Peter Machinist
- The world of ancient Egyptian thought / James P. Allen
- On speculative thought in ancient Mesopotamia / Benjamin R. Foster
- Self, substance, and social metaphysics : the intellectual adventures of Israel and Judah / Ryan Byrne
- Ancient Greece : man the measure of all things / Kurt A. Raaflaub
- The thought-world of ancient Rome: a delicate balancing act / Robert A. Kaster and David Konstan
- Self, cosmos, and agency in early China / Lisa Raphals
- Vedic India : thinking and doing / Stephanie W. Jamison
- 'Chronosophy' in classic Maya thought / Stephen Houston
- The word, sacrifice, and divination : Aztec man in the realm of the gods / Guilhem Olivier
- Night thoughts and spiritual adventures : native North America / Peter Nabokov.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781119162612
- 1119162610
- 9781119162629
- 1119162629
- 9781119162599
- 1119162599
- OCLC:
- 948494608
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