Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man

Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man

Henri Frankfort

History

Penguin??Books

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.

The Intellectual Adventure of Ancient Man: An Essay of Speculative Thought in the Ancient Near East (Oriental Institute Essays)

Thorkild Jacobsen

H. A. Frankfort

John A. Wilson

William A. Irwin

Ancient Civilizations

University of Chicago Press Journals

Traces the development of Mesopotamian art from Sumerian times to the late Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian periods. This text also covers the art and architecture of Asia Minor and the Hittites, of the Levant in the second millennium BC, of the Aramaeans and Phoenicians in Syria, and of Ancient Persia.

The Art and Architecture of the Ancient Orient (The Yale University Press Pelican History of Art)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Reyes y dioses

Alianza Editorial

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