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The adventure of the human intellect : self, society, and the divine in ancient world cultures /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Raaflaub, Kurt A. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chichester, West Sussex, UK : Wiley Blackwell, 2016.
Colección:Ancient world--comparative histories.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Francesca Rochberg, Kurt A Raaflaub
  • A Critique of the Cognitive-historical Thesis of / Francesca Rochberg
  • The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man / 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 / Ryan Byrne
  • Ancient Greece / Kurt A Raaflaub
  • The Thought-World of Ancient Rome / Robert A Kaster, David Konstan
  • Self, Cosmos, and Agency in Early China / Lisa Raphals
  • Vedic India / Stephanie W Jamison
  • "Chronosophy" in Classic Maya Thought / Stephen Houston
  • The Word, Sacrifice, and Divination / Guilhem Olivier
  • Night Thoughts and Spiritual Adventures / Peter Nabokov.