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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: emergence of subjectivity in the ancient and medieval world
    sub title: an interpretation of western civilization
  name:
    name part: Stewart, Jon (Jon Bartley)
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (399 pages)
  abstract: This volume presents a philosophical analysis of the development of Western civilization from antiquity to the Middle Ages by tracing the various self-conceptions of different cultures as they developed historically, reflecting different views of what it is to be human and the rise of the concept of subjectivity.
  table of contents: Introduction: The Humanities---Questions of Identity and Difference -- 0.1 Defining the Humanities -- 0.1.1 Content: The Subject Matter of the Humanities -- 0.1.2 Form: The Methodology of the Humanities -- 0.2 The Human Mind and Its Objectification -- 0.3 The Contribution of the Present Study -- 0.3.1 A Philosophical Approach to Western Civilization -- 0.3.2 The Notion of Subjectivity -- 1. The Epic of Gilgamesh -- 1.1 The Initial Description of Gilgamesh and Uruk -- 1.2 Enkidu and the Story of the Fall -- 1.3 The Battle with Humbaba -- 1.4 The Death of Enkidu and the Nature of the Gods -- 1.5 Gilgamesh's Journey -- 1.6 The Flood -- 1.7 Immortality Lost -- 1.8 The Mesopotamians' Pessimistic World-View -- 1.9 Nature, Civilization, and Human Agency -- 2. The Hebrew Bible: Genesis and the Book of Job -- 2.1 The Creation: The Conception of God -- 2.2 The Creation: The Conception of Human Beings -- 2.3 The Fall -- 2.4 The Flood -- 2.5 The Tower of Babel -- 2.6 The Problem of Justice in Job -- 2.7 The Pessimistic World-View in Job -- 2.8 The Legal Metaphor in Job -- 2.9 The Incongruities in the Work -- 2.10 The Protest against the Gods -- 2.11 The Limited Conception of Individuality -- 3. Homer's Odyssey -- 3.1 The Story and Structure of the Odyssey -- 3.2 Odysseus and Kalypso -- 3.3 The Lotus-Eaters -- 3.4 The Cyclops -- 3.5 Circe -- 3.6 The Underworld -- 3.7 The Sirens -- 3.8 The Warrior Ethic -- 3.9 The Greek View of Human Nature -- 4. Herodotus' Histories -- 4.1 Scholarly History Versus Mythology -- 4.2 The Story of Gyges -- 4.3 Solon and Croesus -- 4.4 The Relativity of Values -- 4.5 The Story of Polycrates and Nemesis -- 4.6 The Debate about the Best Form of Government -- 4.7 Xerxes' Plans to Invade Greece -- 4.8 Xerxes at the Hellespont -- 4.9 Justice as a Matter of Balance -- 5. Sophocles' Oedipus the King -- 5.1 The Search for Knowledge -- 5.2 Self-Knowledge and the Riddle of the Sphinx -- 5.3 Natural Law Versus Relativism -- 5.4 Human Agency and Culpability -- 5…
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Jon Stewart.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivity
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Self (Philosophy)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Moi (Philosophie)
    topic: Histoire
  subject:
    topic: Ancient
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Medieval
  subject:
    topic: Social History
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  subject:
    topic: History & Surveys
  subject:
    topic: PHILOSOPHY
  subject:
    topic: Self (Philosophy)
  subject:
    topic: Subjectivity
  classification: BD222 .S74 2020
  classification: 126.09
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Emergence of subjectivity in the ancient and medieval world
    name:
      name part: Stewart Jon.
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1120150882
  identifier: 9780191888632
  identifier: 019188863X
  identifier: 9780192596352
  identifier: 0192596357
  identifier: 9780198854357
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 200123
    record change date: 20260319181923.1
    record identifier: in00005718236
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng