Maat, Pharaonic Egypt and the idea of social justice.
Julliard| N° d'inventaire | 31790 |
| Format | 12 x 20 |
| Détails | 164 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 1989 |
| Etat | Occasion |
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Conferences, essays and lessons from the Collège de France. "The living word is Maat. Maat is the integrating discourse of solidarity... the State is there so that Maat is realized: Maat must be realized so that the world is habitable. The Pharaonic State is therefore not understood as an institution of force, violence and subjugation as it is depicted in Exodus, but as an institution of liberation: liberation of man by the hand of man...
Maat establishes the links that bind the human world to that of the gods and ensure universal integration." These few lines from the work of Jan Assmann, professor at the University of Heidelberg, demonstrate the importance of the discoveries of this illustrious Egyptologist. His book is undoubtedly one of the most important in the history of Egyptology, because it highlights the fundamental values that presided over the creation of the pharaonic civilization and nourished its thought for three millennia.
Jan Assmann helps us understand that, for ancient Egypt, everything was connected and that there existed, through the work of Pharaoh, a correspondence between Maat, the spiritual reality of the universe, and the social organization on earth. This book is a fundamental introduction to the thought of Pharaonic civilization.
Conferences, essays and lessons from the Collège de France. "The living word is Maat. Maat is the integrating discourse of solidarity... the State is there so that Maat is realized: Maat must be realized so that the world is habitable. The Pharaonic State is therefore not understood as an institution of force, violence and subjugation as it is depicted in Exodus, but as an institution of liberation: liberation of man by the hand of man...
Maat establishes the links that bind the human world to that of the gods and ensure universal integration." These few lines from the work of Jan Assmann, professor at the University of Heidelberg, demonstrate the importance of the discoveries of this illustrious Egyptologist. His book is undoubtedly one of the most important in the history of Egyptology, because it highlights the fundamental values that presided over the creation of the pharaonic civilization and nourished its thought for three millennia.
Jan Assmann helps us understand that, for ancient Egypt, everything was connected and that there existed, through the work of Pharaoh, a correspondence between Maat, the spiritual reality of the universe, and the social organization on earth. This book is a fundamental introduction to the thought of Pharaonic civilization.