The price of monotheism /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Assmann, Jan
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The mosaic distinction and the problem of intolerance. How many religions stand behind the Old Testament?
  • What is truth?
  • Intolerance, violence, and exclusion
  • Constructions of the other : religious satire. Monotheism, a counter-religion to what? Monotheism versus polytheism
  • Akhenaten and Moses : Egyptian and Biblical monotheism
  • Monotheism as anti-cosmotheism
  • Monotheism as political theology : ethics, justice, freedom
  • Law and morality in the "pagan" world and the theologization of justice in monotheism. The clash of memories : between idolatry and iconoclasm. The legend of the lepers and the Amarna trauma in Egypt
  • Iconoclasm and iconolatory
  • Prisca theologia and the abolition of the mosaic distinction
  • The tightening of the mosaic distinction and the rise of paganology. Sigmund Freud and progress in intellectuality. The Jewish and the Greek options
  • The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory
  • The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality. The psychohistorical consequences of monotheism. The "scriptural turn" : from cult to book
  • Into the crypt
  • The invention of the inner self
  • Counter-religion and the concept of sin.