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Alienation: The Experience of the Eastern Mediterranean (50-600 A.D.)



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Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften


Paru le : 2011-01-14



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This book is a comprehensive study of the experience of alienation in its many and inter-related manifestations as attested in the late-antique East. It situates Christianity’s enduring legacy in its early historical context and explores the way estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to the status of a cardinal religious virtue. The author analyzes the reasons for the new faith’s concern for the marginalized and shows the contemporary relevance of social utopia as an antidote to alienation. Christianity’s contradictions are also examined as, in opposing the existing legal order, the followers of the monotheistic religion inadvertently supported the violence of the imperial authority and its laws. Further, the study focuses on the existentialist and psychological dimensions of time-honoured metaphors, such as «Life is a theatre» and «Dead to the world», and investigates mental illness in late antiquity. Finally, the early origins of the modern concept of the self are traced back to the ideological transformations that marked the slow transition from antiquity to the middle ages.
Pages
566 pages
Collection
n.c
Parution
2011-01-14
Marque
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
EAN papier
9783039117895
EAN PDF
9783035100266
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Nombre pages copiables
113
Nombre pages imprimables
113
Taille du fichier
3553 Ko
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