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Black Athena Writes Back de Martin Bernal

Black Athena Writes Back

Autor Martin Bernal Editat de David Chioni Moore
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 sep 2001

Găsim în Black Athena Writes Back un instrument metodologic esențial pentru înțelegerea modului în care se construiește și se contestă canonul istoric. Aplicabilitatea practică a acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a demonta mecanismele prin care prejudecățile ideologice pot modela rigoarea academică. Nu este doar o simplă replică, ci un exercițiu de istoriografie critică ce obligă cititorul să reevalueze rădăcinile civilizației europene. Structura cărții este una riguroasă, fiind împărțită în secțiuni care acoperă Egiptologia, Lingvistica și Știința, fiecare capitol fiind conceput ca un răspuns argumentat la adresa criticilor care au urmat publicării lucrării fundamentale a lui Martin Bernal. Putem afirma că autorul reușește să transforme o controversă mediatică într-o analiză academică profundă, oferind hărți, diagrame și o documentație extinsă care să susțină ipoteza sa privind influențele afro-asiatice în Grecia Antică. Acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum volumul colectiv Black Athena Revisited, coordonat de Mary R. Lefkowitz, dar cu o abordare mult mai personală și defensivă, unde Bernal își apără teza punct cu punct în fața detractorilor. În contextul operei sale, această lucrare vine să completeze primele volume din Black Athena, servind drept punte între cercetarea originală și recepția sa critică globală. Tonul este precis și combativ, indicând o progresie clară de la prezentarea dovezilor arheologice la demascarea barierelor politice din mediul universitar al secolului al XIX-lea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822327172
ISBN-10: 0822327171
Pagini: 576
Ilustrații: maps
Dimensiuni: 158 x 237 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.83 kg
Editura: Duke University Press
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cercetătorilor și studenților la istorie sau sociologie care doresc să înțeleagă culisele uneia dintre cele mai mari controverse academice moderne. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă critică asupra modului în care sunt scrise manualele de istorie, primind argumente concrete împotriva eurocentrismului. Este un document istoriografic fascinant despre puterea ideilor de a destabiliza discipline întregi.

Despre autor

Martin Bernal a fost profesor de politici publice și studii ale Orientului Apropiat la Cornell University. Cariera sa a fost marcată de o tranziție neașteptată de la istoria intelectuală chineză către studiul civilizațiilor mediteraneene, provocând paradigmele stabilite ale studiilor clasice. Lucrarea sa monumentală, seria Black Athena, a fost tradusă în numeroase limbi, inclusiv germană, italiană și franceză, devenind un punct de referință în dezbaterile despre originile multiculturale ale lumii occidentale. Bernal a rămas o figură centrală în mediul academic pentru curajul de a chestiona fundamentele rasiale ale istoriografiei europene din secolul al XIX-lea.

Descriere scurtă

In 1987 a book appeared that generated one of the most passionate debates of recent decades. Producing a shock wave of reaction from scholars studying the civilisation of the ancient Greeks, Martin Bernal's Black Athena argued that the development of Greek civilisation was influenced predominantly by Afro-Asiatic civilisations. Moreover, Bernal asserted that this conception had been deliberately obscured by the rampant racism of nineteenth-century Europeans who could not abide the notion that Greek society - for centuries recognised as the originating culture of Europe - had its origins in Africa.
The subsequent rancour among classicists to Bernal's theory and accusations was picked up in the popular media, and his suggestion that Greek culture had its origin in Africa was widely derided. In a report on 60 Minutes, for example, it was suggested that Bernal's hypothesis was essentially an attempt to provide blacks with self-esteem so that they would feel included in the march of progress. Black Athena Writes Back is Bernal's long-planned third instalment, in which he responds to his critics by providing both additional documentation and disarming explanations of why traditional scholarship on the subject remains inaccurate and why specific arguments lobbed against his theories over the past decades are themselves faulty.
Black Athena Writes Back requires neither a prior familiarity with the Black Athena hypothesis nor with the arguments advanced against it. Beyond those who have been engaged in the debate since it began, educated readers interested in ancient civilisation and world history will be fascinated by its arguments.

Cuprins

Preface
Transcriptions and Phonetics
Maps and Charts
Introduction
I Egyptology
1. Can We We Fair? A Reply to John Baines
2. Greece is Not Nubia: A Reply to David O’Connor
II Classics
3. Who is Qualified to Write Greek History? A Reply to Lawrence A. Tritle
4. How Did the Egyptian Way of Death Reach Greece? A Reply to Emily Vermeule
5. Just Smoke and Mirrors? A Reply to Edith Hall
III Linguistics
6. Ausnahmslosigkeit über Alles: A Reply to Jay H. Jasanoff and Alan Nussbaum
> IV Historiography
> 7. Accuracy and/or Coherence? A Reply to Robert Norton, Robert Palter, and Josine Blok
8. Passion and Politics: A Reply to Guy Rogers
9. The British Utilitarians, Imperialism, and the Fall of the Ancient Model
V Science
10. Was There a Greek Scientific Miracle? A Reply to Robert Palter
11. Animadversions on the Origins of Western Science
VI Recent Broadening Scholarship
12. Greek Art Without Egypt, Hamlet Without the Prince: A Review of Sarah Morris’s Daidalos and the Origins of Greek Art
13. One or Several Revolutions? A Review of Walter Burkert’s The Orientalizing Revolution: Near Eastern Influence on Greek Culture in the Early Archaic Age
14. There’s a Mountain in the Way: A Review of Martin West’s The East Face of Helicon: West Asiatic Elements in Greek Poetry and Myth
15. Phoenician Politics and Egyptian Justice in Ancient Greece
VII. A Popularizing Effort
16. All Not Quiet on the Wellesley Front: A Review of Not Out of Africa
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"A fascinating and important debate. As a lay reader I find both the scholarly arguments and the human differences very gripping. Bernal tells the story of the process of academic diffusion very vividly and gives us the kind of background we don't usually discover." - Margaret Drabble

"Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind sharp and his analyses often convincing." - Richard Jenkins, The Times Higher Education Supplement

"Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Bible. . . . [It] enjoys such continued attention because it raises important scholarly questions, and because it makes a difficult subject available to a large audience." - Mario Liverani, in Black Athena Revisited

"Few books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has Black Athena."-Guy MacLean Rogers, in Black Athena Revisited" Fourteen years ago, a tiny London publisher brought out a 600-page academic study ofAncient Greece. . . within months Black Athena had become--as one historian said--probablythe most hotly debated book about the ancient Mediteranean since the Bible. That first volumewas soon reissued by Random House as a mass-market paperback. Broadsheet editorspontificated in a dozen countries about Bernal's claims. TV documentaries were made, andsymposia convened. A whole cottage industry of attacks and couter-attacks developed aroundBernal's work. Black Athena Writes Back, his new collection of replies to his critics, is justthe latest instalment in an unending saga."--The Independent, 29 December 2001" . . . I follow with continuing fascination the astonishing academic debate on deep history in Martin Bernal's Black Athena Writes Back--one of the strangest intellectual confrontations of our time."--Margaret Drabble, The Independent, 1 December 2001
"A fascinating and important debate. As a lay reader I find both the scholarly arguments and the human differences very gripping. Bernal tells the story of the process of academic diffusion very vividly and gives us the kind of background we don't usually discover." - Margaret Drabble "Bernal's material is fascinating, his mind sharp and his analyses often convincing." - Richard Jenkins, The Times Higher Education Supplement "Black Athena must be the most discussed book on the ancient history of the eastern Mediterranean world since the Bible... [It] enjoys such continued attention because it raises important scholarly questions, and because it makes a difficult subject available to a large audience." - Mario Liverani, in Black Athena Revisited "Few books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has Black Athena."-Guy MacLean Rogers, in Black Athena Revisited " Fourteen years ago, a tiny London publisher brought out a 600-page academic study of Ancient Greece... within months Black Athena had become--as one historian said--probably the most hotly debated book about the ancient Mediteranean since the Bible. That first volume was soon reissued by Random House as a mass-market paperback. Broadsheet editors pontificated in a dozen countries about Bernal's claims. TV documentaries were made, and symposia convened. A whole cottage industry of attacks and couter-attacks developed around Bernal's work. Black Athena Writes Back, his new collection of replies to his critics, is just the latest instalment in an unending saga."--The Independent, 29 December 2001 " ... I follow with continuing fascination the astonishing academic debate on deep history in Martin Bernal's Black Athena Writes Back--one of the strangest intellectual confrontations of our time."--Margaret Drabble, The Independent, 1 December 2001

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"[F]ew books published about the ancient world since World War II have provoked as much interest both inside and outside the discipline of classics as has "Black Athena.""--Guy MacLean Rogers, in "Black Athena Revisite"d

Descriere

Bernal's response to criticisms to his 1987 book, BLACK ATHENA, which argued for an Afro-Asiatic origin for Greek civilisation.