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ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems Hardcover - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Hare, Tom
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- Title ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender, and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems
- Author Hare, Tom
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 344
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
- Date 1999-06-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2006020041
- ISBN 9780804731782 / 0804731780
- Weight 1.46 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Dimensions 9.44 x 6.18 x 1 in (23.98 x 15.70 x 2.54 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Cultural Region: East Africa
- Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
- Cultural Region: North Africa
- Library of Congress subjects Egypt - Religion, Egyptian language - Writing, Hieroglyphic
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98-17634
- Dewey Decimal Code 299.31
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From the rear cover
The texts and visual arts of ancient Egypt reveal a persistent and sophisticated engagement with problems of language, the body, and multiplicity. This innovative book shows how these issues were represented in ancient Egypt and how Egyptian approaches to them continue to influence the way we think about them today.
The story of Osiris is one of the central cultural myths of ancient Egypt, a story of dismemberment and religious passion that also exemplifies attitudes about personal identity, sexuality, and the transfer of royal power. It is, moreover, a story of death and the overcoming of death, and in this it lies at the center of our own means of engagement with ancient Egypt.
This book focuses on the story of Osiris as it is recorded in Egyptian texts and memorialized on the walls of temples and tombs. Since such a focus is attainable only through Egyptian representational systems, especially hieroglyphs, the book also engages broader questions of writing and visual representation: decipherment, controversies about the "ideograph," and the relation between visual images and writing.
This analysis of Egyptian representation leads to a consideration of the phallic body and the problem of multiplicity in Egyptian religion, two nets of Egyptian discourse that, though integrated into the writing system itself, reach toward broader Egyptian discourses of gender, subjectivity, piety, and cosmogenesis. The concluding chapter considers, in specific terms, the question of a persisting Egyptian legacy in the West, from the Greeks and Israelites to Augustine, Hegel, and Lacan.
The story of Osiris is one of the central cultural myths of ancient Egypt, a story of dismemberment and religious passion that also exemplifies attitudes about personal identity, sexuality, and the transfer of royal power. It is, moreover, a story of death and the overcoming of death, and in this it lies at the center of our own means of engagement with ancient Egypt.
This book focuses on the story of Osiris as it is recorded in Egyptian texts and memorialized on the walls of temples and tombs. Since such a focus is attainable only through Egyptian representational systems, especially hieroglyphs, the book also engages broader questions of writing and visual representation: decipherment, controversies about the "ideograph," and the relation between visual images and writing.
This analysis of Egyptian representation leads to a consideration of the phallic body and the problem of multiplicity in Egyptian religion, two nets of Egyptian discourse that, though integrated into the writing system itself, reach toward broader Egyptian discourses of gender, subjectivity, piety, and cosmogenesis. The concluding chapter considers, in specific terms, the question of a persisting Egyptian legacy in the West, from the Greeks and Israelites to Augustine, Hegel, and Lacan.
