ISBN: 9781890951603

This is a classic work that rereads questions of "muthos" and "logos" in multifaceted contexts. When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published "Myth and Thought among the Greeks" in 1965, it tr… Plus…

This is a classic work that rereads questions of "muthos" and "logos" in multifaceted contexts. When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published "Myth and Thought among the Greeks" in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays - three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first time - Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chains and reread the questions of "muthos" and "logos" within multifaced and transdisciplinary contexts - of religion, ritual, and art, philosophy, science, social and economic institutions, and historical psychology. A major contribution to both the humanities and the social sciences, "Myth and Thought among the Greeks" aims to come to terms with a single, essential question: How were individual persons in ancient Greece inseparable from a social and cultural environment of which they were simultaneously the creators and products? Seven themes organise this stellar work - from "Myth Structures" and "Mythic Aspects of Memory and Time" to "The Organisation of Space," "Work and Technological Thought," and "Personal Identity and Religion." A master storyteller, an innovative, precise, and original thinker, Vernant continues to change the narratives we tell about the histories of civilizations and the histories of human beings in their individual and collective identities. Neu, Festpreisangebot, [LT: FixedPrice], EAN: 9781890951603, UPC: 9781890951603, Book Title: Myth and Thought Among the Greeks by Jean-Pierre Vernant, Item Length: 22.6 cm, Publication Year: 2006, Type: Textbook, Format: Paperback, Language: English, Publication Name: Myth and Thought Among the Greeks, Item Height: 229mm, Item Width: 152mm, Subject: History, Item Weight: 703g, Number of Pages: 512 Pages, ZONE Books<

ISBN: 9781890951603

“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first publishe… Plus…

“Myth and Thought among the Greeks is Jean-Pierre Vernant’s magisterial first entry upon the scene of classical studies. As fresh and challenging as it was when first published in 1965, this new edition of his eighteen essays, which includes two previously untranslated chapters, will provide the English-speaking world with a long-overdue edition. As the very words of the title announce, two major themes run throughout this pathbreaking study. On the one hand, ‘myth’ and ‘thought’ suggest a certain transition from the mythic to the rational, from the fabulous to the philosophical, as an intellectual sea change that occurred within the social and political context of the Greek city-state. On the other hand, ‘myth’ and ‘thought’ also gesture to Vernant’s insistence on the legibility of mythic thinking and ritual practices as revealing categories of thought that yield their own logic. Hence, to understand mental categories we take for granted as our own, such as time, space, memory, work, craft, art, and even the idea of the person, requires acts of decipherment through the language, the ‘codes,’ of myth. The excitement of these essays lies in a virtuoso handling of data of every sort — archaeology, history, literature, and iconography — and the complex web of associations that emerge from these interdisciplinary investigations, all presented in lucid, readable prose. Myth and Thought has much to offer the specialist and nonspecialist alike, and to those not already familiar with Vernant’s work, the promise of much more in store.”— Froma Zeitlin, Charles Ewing Professor of Greek Language and Literature and Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>World History>Ancient Hist>Ancient Greece, Zone Books Core >1 >T<

ISBN: 9781890951603

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*Myth and Thought Among the Greeks* / Taschenbuch für 30.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Geschichte Medien > Bücher nein Buch (kartoniert) Bücher > Wissenschaft > Geschichte, ZONE BOOKS<