Jean Pierre Vernant Boeken

Jean Pierre-Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet are leaders in a contemporary French classical scholarship that has produced a a stunning reconfiguration of Greek thought and literature. In this work, published here as a single volume, the authors present a disturbing and decidedly non-classical reading of Greek tragedy that insists on its radical discontinuity with our own outlook and with our social, aesthetic, and psychological categories. Originally published in French in two volumes, this new single-volume edition includes revised essays from volume one and is the first English translation of both volumes.

Exploring the interplay between mythos and logos, this classic work delves into their significance across various contexts. It challenges readers to reconsider traditional concepts and encourages a deeper understanding of narrative and reason. Through its multifaceted approach, the book invites an examination of how these elements shape human thought and culture, making it a thought-provoking read for those interested in philosophy and literary analysis.

Exploring the rich tapestry of Greek mythology, Vernant's retelling begins with the Earth's creation from Chaos and unfolds through pivotal events such as Uranus's castration and the Titan-Olympian conflict. The narrative highlights memorable figures like Prometheus, Zeus, and Pandora, alongside epic tales from the Trojan War to Odysseus's journey, and the fates of Dionysus and Oedipus. Vernant's unique storytelling style brings these ancient myths to life, making them accessible and engaging for modern readers.

Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and social environment and shows that what they believed in was inseparable from the way they...

In this engrossing retelling of Greek myth, Jean-Pierre Vernant combines his profound knowledge of the subject with brilliant and original story-telling. Beginning with the creation of Earth out of Chaos, Vernant continues with the castration of Uranus, the war between the Titans and the gods of Olympus, the wily ruses of Prometheus and Zeus, and the creation of Pandora, the first woman. His narrative takes us from the Trojan War to the voyage of Odysseus, from the story of Dionysus to the terrible destiny of Oedipus and to Perseus's confrontation with the Gorgons. Jean-Pierre Vernant has devoted himself to the study of Greek mythology. In recounting these tales, he unravels for us their multiple meanings and brings to life cherished figures of legend whose stories lie at the origin of our civilization.

In this groundbreaking study, Jean-Pierre Vernant delineates a compelling new vision of ancient Greece. Myth and Society in Ancient Greece takes us far from the calm and familiar images of Polykleitos and the Parthenon to reveal a fundamentally other culture -- one of slavery, of masks and death, of scapegoats, of ritual hunting, and of ecstasies. Vernant's provocative discussions of various institutions and practices (including war, marriage, and sacrifice) detail the complex intersection of the religious, social, and political structures of ancient Greece. The book concludes with Vernant's authoritative genealogy of the study of myth from Antiquity to structuralism and beyond. "Myth," he writes, "brings into operation a form of logic which we may describe, unlike the logic of noncontradiction of the philosophers, as a logic of the ambiguous and the equivocal."

Si l'histoire, comme l'écrivait Marx, est une transformation continue de la nature humaine, historiens et psychologues doivent, de concert, affronter le même problème: comment, en bâtissant outils et techniques, en édifiant les langues, en instaurant de vastes ensembles d'institutions sociales, en créant les systèmes religieux, les savoirs sicientifiques et les divers types d'oeuvres d'art, les hommes se sont-ils eux-mêmes construits et transformés? Echelonnés entre 1965 et 1975, ces études cherchent à repérer les distances entre l'homme des religions antiques et le croyant d'aujourd'hui, comme entre la raison du savant contemporain et des formes différentes de rationalité. A travers cette confrontation, l'homme n'apparaît pas moins divers et changeant que les civilisations auxquelles il se rattache et dont il est à la fois le producteur et le produit.Comprendre le devenir humain, c'et d'abord accepter de mettre la religion, la raison, l'histoire - l'homme lui-même - au pluriel.

Soubor statí předního francouzského hellénisty, věnovaných náboženství, filosofii, umění a politice, podává všestranný obraz řeckého myšlení a mentality.

Das antike Griechenland ist die Wiege der abendländischen Zivilisation, und Aristoteles' 'zoon politikon' - der freie Bürger der klassischen Polis - gilt uns gemeinhin als unser demokratischer Vorfahr. In ihren acht exemplarischen Porträts führen uns die Autoren dieses Bandes die Griechen des Altertums als Fremde vor, die in einer sehr eigenen Welt lebten. In diesen Porträts werden Idealtypen von Menschen aus allen gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Sphären sichtbar; es entsteht ein Gesamtbild der Epoche von großer historischer Tiefenschärfe. 'So lernen wir den Griechen als Bürger und als Krieger kennen, erleben ihn bei der Arbeit, im religiösen Leben, in der häuslichen Sphäre und auf dem langen Weg der diversen Prüfungen, die er absolvieren muß, um dem Ideal des vollkommenen Menschen näherzukommen. Wir wollen die typischen Züge der Aktivitäten herausarbeiten, die die Griechen der Antike in den großen Bereichen des Gemeinschaftslebens entfalteten.'