Description: Further DetailsTitle: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early ModernityCondition: NewSubtitle: Formations of the FormlessISBN-10: 3110653699EAN: 9783110653694ISBN: 9783110653694Publisher: De GruyterFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 11/23/2020Description: Chaos is a perennial source of fear and fascination. The original "formless void" (tohu-wa-bohu) mentioned in the book of Genesis, chaos precedes the created world: a state of anarchy before the establishment of cosmic order. But chaos has frequently also been conceived of as a force that persists in the cosmos and in society and threatens to undo them both. From the cultures of the ancient Near East and the Old Testament to early modernity, notions of the divine have included the power to check and contain as well as to unleash chaos as a sanction for the violation of social and ethical norms. Yet chaos has also been construed as a necessary supplement to order, a region of pure potentiality at the base of reality that provides the raw material of creation or even constitutes a kind of alternative order itself. As such, it generates its own peculiar 'formations of the formless'. Focusing on the connection between the cosmic and the political, this volume traces the continuities and re-conceptualizations of chaos from the ancient Near East to early modern Europe across a variety of cultures, discourses and texts. One of the questions it poses is how these pre-modern 'chaos theories' have survived into and reverberate in our own time.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: DEItem Height: 230mmItem Length: 155mmItem Weight: 483gContributor: Andreas Höfele (Edited by), Christoph Levin (Edited by), Reinhard Müller (Edited by), Björn Quiring (Edited by)Genre: Philosophy & SpiritualityTopic: Literary CriticismAuthor: Björn QuiringRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity
Title: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity
Subtitle: Formations of the Formless
ISBN-10: 3110653699
EAN: 9783110653694
ISBN: 9783110653694
Release Date: 11/23/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: DE
Item Height: 230mm
Contributor: Björn Quiring (Edited by)
Genre: Philosophy & Spirituality
Topic: Literary Criticism
Number of Pages: 244 Pages
Publication Name: Chaos from the Ancient World to Early Modernity : Formations of the Formless
Language: English
Publisher: DE Gruyter Gmbh, Walter
Publication Year: 2020
Subject: Subjects & Themes / Religion, Judaism / History, Religious, Biblical Studies / Old Testament, Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / Old Testament, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Christoph Levin
Item Length: 9.1 in
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Religion, Philosophy
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
