Jan Assmann Libros

La flauta mágica es la ópera más popular de Mozart, a pesar de que su acción plantea grandes enigmas. ¿En qué país una astuta serpiente hace de las suyas en los aledaños de un Templo de la Sabiduría? ¿Quién es bueno y quién malo? ¿Qué significa la prueba del fuego y del agua? Los contemporáneos de Mozart supieron orientarse en este mundo, pues en la historia de las dos desiguales parejas descubrieron alusiones a la francmasonería, a las concepciones de ésta sobre el antiguo Egipto y a los cultos mistéricos a él ligados. El gran egiptólogo Jan Assmann nos cuenta La flauta mágica escena por escena, mostrando lo estrechamente conectadas que la acción y la música de la flauta mágica están con la fascinación que el antiguo Egipto y los cultos mistéricos ejercieron sobre Mozart y sus contemporáneos. Y de repente esta historia deja de parecernos tan enigmática. Más bien asistimos a la transformación de los actores en el escenario, entre dudas y pruebas, en hombres ilustrados, y nosotros mismos nos convertimos en parte de la historia, ya sea un teatro de ópera como ante un equipo de música. Estamos, pues, ante un libro que vuelve a abrir los ojos y los oídos a una ópera que hace mucho que creíamos conocer.

Cuál es la función del recuerdo en la formación de las identidades culturales? ¿Qué formas de recuerdo cultural existen, cómo se organizan, a qué cambios están sometidas? Jan Assmann aborda estas cuestiones comparando tres culturas mediterráneas antiguas (Egipto, Israel y Grecia) y señala la importancia del descubrimiento y el uso de la escritura en el origen de los primeros estados.

En Egipto. Historia de un sentido Jan Assmann se pregunta por el marco de condiciones y modelos mentales e intelectuales, religiosos, culturales y políticos del Antiguo Egipto, cuyas huellas, mensajes y recuerdos nos han sido legados en las grandiosas manifestaciones artísticas de aquella cultura que constituyen el objeto de la historiografía y que nuestro autor describe e interpreta de manera extremadamente precisa y enriquecedora.

This collection of papers from two workshops - held in Heidelberg, Germany, in July 1996 and Jerusalem, Israel, in October 1997 - is concerned with anthropological rather than theological aspects of the Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions, ranging from the 'primary' religions of the archaic period and their complex developments in Egypt and Mesopotamia to the 'soteriological' movements and 'secondary' religions that emerged in Late Antiquity. The first part of the book focuses on "Confession and Conversion," while the second part is devoted to the topic of "Guilt, Sin and Rituals of Purification." The primary purpose of this volume is to convey a sense of the dynamics and dialectical relationships between the various Near Eastern and Mediterranean religions from the archaic period to Late Antiquity.Contributions in English, German and French.

Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book presents a groundbreaking theoretical analysis of memory, identity and culture.

The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East.This volume consists of presentations made at an international conference held in honor of Moshe Barasch, art historian and cultural critic, who has done much to elucidate the light which representation and religion shed on each other. It pays tribute to Barasch by expanding the base of understanding and insight he has erected. It should be of interest to students of religion and of art history.

Assmann uses Moses as a figure of memory to study the ways in which factual and fictional events and characters are stored in religious beliefs and transformed in their philosophical justification, literary reinterpretation, philological restitution (or falsification), and psychoanalytic demystification.

The seven chapters of this seminal study shed light on the great transformation from polytheism to monotheism.

Translation of: Exodus, die Revolution der alten Welt.

First English-language edition, with revisions and additions by the author.This classic work by one of the world's most distinguished Egyptologists was first published in German in 1984. The Search for God in Ancient Egypt offers a distillation of Jan Assmann's views on ancient Egyptian religion, with special emphasis on theology and piety. Deeply rooted in the texts of ancient Egypt and thoroughly informed by comparative religion, theology, anthropology, and semiotic analysis, Assmann's interpretations reveal the complexity of Egyptian thought in a new way.Assmann takes special care to distinguish between the "implicit" theology of Egyptian polytheism and the "explicit" theology that is concerned with exploring the problem of the divine. His discussion of polytheism and mythology addresses aspects of ritual, the universe, and myth; his consideration of explicit theology deals with theodicy and the specifics of Amarna religion.