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The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
- An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East
Engelsk Paperback
The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man
- An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
410
ISBN-13:
9780226260082
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226260089
Udg. Dato:
15 apr 1977
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
154mm
Højde:
228mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
15 apr 1977
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