Jan Assmann: 14 books

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Thomas Mann und Ägypten

Mythos und Monotheismus in den Josephsromanen

by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: July 20, 2018

Jan Assmann geht den bahnbrechenden religions- und kulturwissenschaftlichen Einsichten Thomas Manns nach, die dieser vor allem in seinem Romanzyklus Joseph und seine Brüder vermittelt. Auf faszinierende Weise läßt er seine Leser nicht nur das literarische Kunstwerk der Josephsromane mit neuen Augen...
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Religio Duplex

How the Enlightenment Reinvented Egyptian Religion

by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014

In this important new book, the distinguished Egyptologist Jan Assmann provides a masterful overview of a crucial theme in the religious history of the West - that of 'religio duplex', or dual religion. He begins by returning to the theology of the Ancient Egyptians, who set out to present their culture...
Book cover of The Price of Monotheism
by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2009

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, renowned Egyptologist Jan Assmann answers his critics, extending and building upon ideas from his previous book. Maintaining...
Book cover of Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2011

"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 can live with that knowledge." In his new book, Assmann explores images of death and of death rites...
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Exodus

Die Revolution der Alten Welt

by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: February 10, 2015

Die Geschichte vom Auszug aus Ägypten ist eine der wirkmächtigsten Erzählungen der Menschheit. Sie steht für die Befreiung aus Sklaverei, aber auch für die Erfindung des Glaubens an den einen Gott. Jan Assmann verfolgt die Spuren der Exodus-Erzählung zurück bis ins Alte Ägypten und nach vorne...
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Achsenzeit

Eine Archäologie der Moderne

by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: October 12, 2018

Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels für Aleida und Jan Assmann Um das 6. Jahrhundert v.Chr. traten in verschiedenen Kulturräumen der Welt unabhängig voneinander Philosophen und Propheten auf, die das bisherige mythische Denken überwanden: Konfuzius und Laotse in China, Buddha in Indien, Zarathustra...
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The Invention of Religion

Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus

by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018

A groundbreaking account of how the Book of Exodus shaped fundamental aspects of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam The Book of Exodus may be the most consequential story ever told. But its spectacular moments of heaven-sent plagues and parting seas overshadow its true significance, says Jan...
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Freud and Monotheism

Moses and the Violent Origins of Religion

by Jan Assmann, Richard Bernstein, Willi Goetschel
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

Over the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in the interconnection of psychoanalysis, religion and political theory has emerged, allowing Freud’s illuminating examination of the religious...
Book cover of Totale Religion

Totale Religion

Ursprünge und Formen puritanischer Verschärfung

by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: August 29, 2016

Die weltweite Bedrohung durch religiös motivierten Terrorismus und Gewalt scheint größer zu sein als je zuvor. Kann es sein, dass das radikale Antlitz des Islamismus nicht so sehr die Eigenheit einer bestimmten Religion ist, sondern auf eine Gemeinsamkeit aller monotheistischen Varianten verweist?...
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Die Zauberflöte

Eine Oper mit zwei Gesichtern

by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: July 24, 2018

Anfang und Ende von Mozarts bekanntester Oper scheinen nicht zusammenzupassen: Haben Mozart und sein Librettist Schikaneder mitten in der Arbeit an der "Zauberflöte" kurzerhand die Handlung umgeworfen, wie viele bis heute glauben, weil im Juni 1791 ein Stück herauskam, das auf demselben...
Book cover of Ägyptische Mysterien

Ägyptische Mysterien

Reisen in die Unterwelt in Aufklärung und Romantik

by Jan Assmann, Florian Ebeling
Language: German
Release Date: October 19, 2011

Unterweltsreisen sind ein zentrales Thema der abendländischen Literatur, von Homer und Vergil bis zu James Joyce und Thomas Mann. Gerade im 18. und frühen 19. Jahrhundert war das Thema beliebt: Die Aufklärung organisierte sich unter den Bedingungen politischer und kirchlicher Zensur in der Form...
Book cover of Cultural Memory and Early Civilization

Cultural Memory and Early Civilization

Writing, Remembrance, and Political Imagination

by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: December 5, 2011

Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture. It investigates how cultures remember, arguing that human memory exists and is communicated in two ways, namely inter-human interaction and in external systems of...
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From Akhenaten to Moses

Ancient Egypt and Religious Change

by Jan Assmann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014

The shift from polytheism to monotheism changed the world radically. Akhenaten and Moses-a figure of history and a figure of tradition-symbolize this shift in its incipient, revolutionary stages and represent two civilizations that were brought into the closest connection as early as the Book of Exodus,...
Book cover of Monotheismus und die Sprache der Gewalt
by Jan Assmann
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2011

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