Concepedia

Publication | Closed Access

Mesopotamia: writing, reasoning, and the Gods

306

Citations

0

References

1992

Year

Unknown Author(s)
Choice Reviews Online

Abstract

Chronology Rules of transcription and translation Map Birth of the West I: Assyriology 1: In Defense of a Useless Science 2: Assyriology and Our History 3: A Century of Assyriology II: Writing 4: Avalanche of Decipherments in the Ancient Near East between 1800 and 1930 5: From Mnemonic Device to Script 6: Writing and Dialectics, or the Progress of Knowledge III: Reasoning: Institutions and Mentality 7: Oneiromancy 8: Divination and the Scientific Spirit 9: Substitute King and His Fate 10: Code of Hammurabi 11: Free Love and Its Disadvantages IV: The Gods: Religion 12: Religious System 13: Intelligence and the Technical Function of Power: Enki/Ea 14: Dialogue of Pessimism and Transcendence 15: Mythology of Death Glossary-Index References Bibliographical Orientation