The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Societ y and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Hersteller)
978-1-119-16262-9 (ISBN)
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
Kurt A. Raaflaub is the David Herlihy University Professor & Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Brown University. His previous works include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), War and Peace in the Ancient World (Wiley-Blackwell, 2007), Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (with J. Ober and R. W. Wallace, 2007), Geography and Ethnography: Perceptions of the World in Pre-Modern Societies (with R. J. A. Talbert, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), and The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy: A Politico-cultural Transformation and Its Interpretations (with J. Arnason and P. Wagner, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). His numerous publications include authorship or editorship of 20 scholarly books, in addition to more than 120 articles in journals and essay collections.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 11.5.2023 |
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| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike |
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| ISBN-10 | 1-119-16262-9 / 1119162629 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-119-16262-9 / 9781119162629 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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