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• catalog abstract ""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.".
• catalog alternative "Ägypten. English".
• catalog contributor b12947032.
• catalog coverage "Egypt Historiography.".
• catalog coverage "Egypt History To 640 A.D.".
• catalog created "2003.".
• catalog date "2003".
• catalog date "2003.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
• catalog description ""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.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-476) and index.".
• catalog description "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.".
• catalog extent "ix, 513 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0674012119 (pbk.)".
• catalog issued "2003".
• catalog issued "2003.".
• catalog language "eng ger".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Egypt Historiography.".
• catalog spatial "Egypt History To 640 A.D.".
• catalog spatial "Egypt.".
• catalog subject "932/.01 21".
• catalog subject "DT83 .A8813 2003".
• catalog subject "Historiography Egypt.".
• catalog tableOfContents "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.".
• catalog title "The mind of Egypt : history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs / Jan Assmann ; translated by Andrew Jenkins.".
• catalog title "Ägypten. English".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".