(P/B) BLACK ATHENA (VOLUME 1)
THE AFRO-ASIATIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION
BERNAL MARTINΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 4422-0018
Παρουσίαση
What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic cultures. But these Afroasiatic influences have been systematically ignored, denied or suppressed since the eighteenth century - chiefly for racist reasons.According to the view in which most of us have been brought up, Greek civilization was the result of the conquest of a sophisticated but weak native population by vigorous Indo-European speakers - or Aryans - from the north. But the Classical Greeks themselves, Professor Bernal argues, knew nothing about this "Aryan Model": "Although proud of themselves and their recent accomplishments, they did not see their political institutions, science, philosophy or religion as original. They derived them... from the East in general, and Egypt in particular".
Black Athena is a three-volume work. Volume I examines the rise and fall of these two descriptive models. It concentrates on the crucial period between 1785 and 1850, which saw both the Romantic and racist reaction to the Enlightenment and the French Revolution, and the consolidation of Northern European expansion into other continents. These were also the decades in which new paradigms of progress and scientific positivism allowed nineteenth-century scholars to dismiss all their predecessors.
In an unprecedented tour de force, the author makes meaningful links between a wide range of areas and disciplines - drama, poetry, myth, theological controversy, esoteric religion, philosophy, biography, language, historical narrative, and the emergence of "modern" scholarship. He also reveals something of the route by which he came to see that a work like this, which he has spent much of the past ten years preparing, had to be written. (From the publisher)
Περιεχόμενα
Preface and AcknowledgementsTranscription and Phonetics
Maps and Charts
Chronological Table
INTRODUCTION
Chapter I. THE ANCIENT MODEL IN ANTIQUITY
Chapter II. EGYPTIAN WISDOM AND GREEK TRANSMISSION FROM THE DARK AGES TO THE RENAISSANCE
Chapter III. THE TRIUMPH OF EGYPT IN THE 17TH AND 18TH CENTURIES
Chapter IV. HOSTILITIES TO EGYPT IN THE 18TH CENTURY
Chapter V. ROMANTIC LINGUISTICS
Chapter VI. HELLENOMANIA, 1
Chapter VII. HELLENOMANIA, 2
Chapter VIII. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PHOENICIANS, 1830-85
Chapter IX. THE FINAL SOLUTION OF THE PHOENICIAN PROBLEM, 1885-1945
Chapter X. THE POST-WAR SITUATION
CONCLUSION
Appendix. WERE THE PHILISTINES GREEK?
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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