mind of Egypt : history and meaning in the time of the Pharaohs
/ Jann Assmann
; translated by Andrew Jenkins.
New York
: Metropolitan Books
, 2002.
xi, 513 p.:
ill., maps
Code E.Book: 2987
Index
Introduction: The Meaningful Form of History -- The Predynastic Period and the Old Kingdom -- The Beginnings -- 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