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Monoteism och våldets språk
Jan Assmann är en tysk egyptolog, känd för sin tes om att monoteismens uppkomst vid judarnas uttåg ur Egypten. Men Assmann har också varit verksam utanför det egyptologiska fältet. …
Is Time out of Joint?
Is, as Hamlet once complained, time out joint? Have the ways we understand the past and the future—and their relationship to the present—been reordered? The past, it seems, has …
Cultural Memory and Western Civilization
Cultures invest great efforts into creating a long-term memory on the basis of oral transmission, media technology and institutional frameworks. This book provides an introduction …
Moses the Egyptian
Standing at the very foundation of monotheism, and so of Western culture, Moses is a figure not of history, but of memory. As such, he is the quintessential subject for the …
Shadows of Trauma
We have left the twentieth century, but this century of violence and extremes has not left us: Its shadow has become longer and blacker. Seventy years after the end of the Second …
The Invention of Religion
A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and IslamThe Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. …
The Search for God in Ancient Egypt
First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in …
Joseph und seine Brüder I
The Art of Ethics in the Information Society
New technologies are often implemented before their ethical consequences have been fully understood. In this volume, experts working in the sciences, arts, and philosophy of …
The Price of Monotheism
Nothing has so radically transformed the world as the distinction between true and false religion. In this nuanced consideration of his own controversial Moses the Egyptian, …
Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
"Human beings," the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, "are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is the world they create so they …