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The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 1119162556
ISBN-13:: 9781119162551
Pub. Date:: 05/31/2016
Publisher:: Wiley

ISBN-10:: 1119162556
ISBN-13:: 9781119162551
Pub. Date:: 05/31/2016
Publisher:: Wiley

The Adventure of the Human Intellect: Self, Society, and the Divine in Ancient World Cultures / Edition 1

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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 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

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ISBN-13:	9781119162551
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/31/2016
Series:	Ancient World: Comparative Histories
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

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.

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Notes on Contributors vii

Series Editor's Preface xi

Preface and Acknowledgments xiii

Introduction Franceses Rochberg Kurt A. Raaflaub 1

1 A Critique of the Cognitive-historical Thesis of The Intellectual Adventure Franccsca Rochberg 16

2 The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: Revisiting a Classic Peter Machinist 29

3 The World of Ancient Egyptian Thought James P. Allen 73

4 On Speculative Thought in Ancient Mesopotamia Benjamin R. Foster 89

5 Self, Substance, and Social Metaphysics: The Intellectual Adventures of Israel and Judah Ryan Byrne 105

6 Ancient Greece: Man the Measure of All Things Kurt A. Raaflaub 127

7 The Thought-World of Ancient Rome: A Delicate Balancing Act Robert A. Kaster David Konstan 149

8 Self, Cosmos, and Agency in Early China Lisa Raphals 167

9 Vedic India: Thinking and Doing Stephanie W. Jamison 185

10 "Chronosophy" in Classic Maya Thought Stephen Houston 198

11 The Word, Sacrifice, and Divination: Aztec Man in the Realm of the Gods Guilhem Olivier 216

12 Night Thoughts and Spiritual Adventures: Native North America Peter Nabokov 239

Index 260

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