The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East - Couverture souple

Frankfort, Henri; Frankfort, H. A.; Wilson, John A.; Jacobsen, Thorkild; Irwin, William A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226260089 ISBN 13 : 9780226260082

Editeur : Oriental Institute Of The University Of, 1977

Synopsis

The people in ancient times the phenomenal world was teeming with life; the thunderclap, the sudden shadow, the unknown and eerie clearing in the wood, all were living things. This unabridged edition traces the fascinating history of thought from the pre-scientific, personal concept of a "humanized" world to the achievement of detached intellectual reasoning.

The authors describe and analyze the spiritual life of three ancient civilizations: the Egyptians, whose thinking was profoundly influenced by the daily rebirth of the sun and the annual rebirth of the Nile; the Mesopotamians, who believed the stars, moon, and stones were all citizens of a cosmic state; and the Hebrews, who transcended prevailing mythopoeic thought with their cosmogony of the will of God. In the concluding chapter the Frankforts show that the Greeks, with their intellectual courage, were the first culture to discover a realm of speculative thought in which myth was overcome.

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À propos de l'auteur

The late Henri Frankfort, famed equally as explorer and scholar, was director of the Warburg Institute and professor of preclassical antiquity at the University of London. Frankfort was the author and coauthor of many books, including The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man, published by the University of Chicago Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oriental Institute Of The University Of
• Date d'édition: 1977
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226260089
• ISBN 13: 9780226260082
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 410
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