Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods by Bottero, Jean - 1992

Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992. First edition. Hardcover. Very good/very good. Octavo. Slight wear to edgs and corners of boards and dust jacket. 311 pages with chronology, map, footnotes, references, bibliographical orientation, and glossary-index. An examination of the impact of writing on the Ancient civilizations of Babylonia and Assyria. This work features the following essays: 1. In Defense of a Useless Science, 2. Assyriology and Our History, 3. A Century of Assyriology, 4. The "Avalanche" of Decipherments in the Ancient Near east between 1800-1930, 5. From Mnemonic Device to Script, 6. Writings and Dialectics, or the Progress of Knowledge, 7. Oneiromancy, 8. Divination and the Scientific Spirit, 9. The Substitute King and His fate, 10. The "Code" of Hammurabi, 11. "Free Love" and Its Disadvantages, 12. The Religious System, 13. Intelligence and the Technical Function of Power: Enki/Ea, 14. The Dialogue of Pessimism and Transcendence, 15. The Mythology of Death.

1st printing. Near Fine hardcover in Near Fine DJ. Bright, clean, square covers and spine are As New; dust spotting on text block to edge; tightly bound; bright, clean interior. DJ is bright, clean and complete; faintly shelf-scuffed. 8vo, 311 pp; glossary-index, biblio.

Paperback / softback. New. The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. To understand how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture.

Paperback / softback. New. The Mesopotamians invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. To understand how Mesopotamian civilization has been mediated and interpreted in its transmission through time, Bottero begins with an account of Assyriology, the discipline devoted to the ancient culture.

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