The price of monotheism [Texte imprimé] / Jan Assmann ; translated by Robert Savage

Traduction de : "Mosaische Unterscheidung, oder, Der Preis des Monotheismus"

Notes bibliogr.

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 -- Theologia prisca 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 option -- The trauma of monotheism : analytic hermeneutics and mnemohistory -- The ban on graven images as progress in intellectuality. The psycho-historical 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.

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