The adventure of the human intellect : self, society, and the divine in ancient world cultures / / edited by Kurt A. Raaflaub

• Pubblicazione: West Sussex, England : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 180
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy, Ancient; Intellect - History; Intellectual life - History; Self - History; Thought and thinking - History
• Persona (resp. second.): RaaflaubKurt A.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A critique of the cognitive-historical thesis of the intellectual adventure / Francesca Rochberg -- The intellectual adventure of ancient man : revisiting a classic / 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 : the intellectual adventures of Israel and Judah / Ryan Byrne -- Ancient Greece : man the measure of all things / Kurt A. Raaflaub -- The thought-world of ancient Rome: a delicate balancing act / Robert A. Kaster and David Konstan -- Self, cosmos, and agency in early China / Lisa Raphals -- Vedic India : thinking and doing / Stephanie W. Jamison -- 'Chronosophy' in classic Maya thought / Stephen Houston -- The word, sacrifice, and divination : Aztec man in the realm of the gods / Guilhem Olivier -- Night thoughts and spiritual adventures : native North America / Peter Nabokov.
• Titolo autorizzato: The adventure of the human intellect
• ISBN: 1-119-16261-0; 1-119-16262-9; 1-119-16259-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996441551603316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Ancient World: Comparative Histories; THEi Wiley ebooks.