| Description |
ix, 513 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-476) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : the meaningful form of history -- The predynastic period and the Old Kingdom. The beginings ; The Old Kingdom -- The first intermediate period. Historical outline ; Traces ; Messages ; Memories -- The Middle Kingdom. Historical outline ; State, script, education : despotism illuminated from within ; The politicization of connective justice ; Wrath and love : the two faces of power and the rhetoric of decision ; The foundation of connective justice in the hereafter : the judgment of the dead ; The two worlds and the language of despair ; Representation, mediacy, the "riven world," and the problem of evil -- The New Kingdom. Historical outline ; Cosmotheism as a form of knowledge ; Akhenaten's revolution ; Personal piety and the theology of will ; Ramesses II and the Battle of Qadesh ; Changing the structure of the past ; The decline of the New Kingdom -- Theocracy, polyarchy, archaism. Tanis and Thebes : the age of division ; Libyan polyarchy and the State of Napata ; Memory and renewal : the Ethiopian and Saite Renaissance -- Egypt under the Persians and Greeks. Historical outline ; The Demotic chronicle and the political messianism of the Late Period ; The cultural construction of otherness : trauma and phobia ; Re-membering Osiris -- Conclusion : Egypt as trace, message, and memory. |
| Summary |
"The Mind of Egypt presents an unprecedented account of the mainsprings of Egyptian civilization - the ideas, values, mentalities, belief systems, and aspirations that shaped the first territorial state in human history. Drawing on a range of literary, iconographic, and archaeological sources, the renowed historian Jan Assmann reconstructs a world of unparalleled complexity, a culture that, long before others, possessed an extraordinary degree of awareness and self-reflection."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D.
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Egypt -- Historiography.
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15.51 Antiquity. (NL-LeOCL)077599497
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Historiography. (OCoLC)fst00958221
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Egypt. (OCoLC)fst01208755
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Cultural history. (NL-LeOCL)078478227
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Antiquity. (NL-LeOCL)078618649
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Egypt. (NL-LeOCL)078494117
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| Chronological Term |
To 640
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| Indexed Term |
EGITTO ANTICO Storia |
| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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History.
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| Added Title |
Ägypten (1996). English
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| ISBN |
0674012119 |
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9780674012110 |
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