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Magisches Denken und Handeln gehört zu den augenfälligsten Charakteristika der altorientalischen Kultur: Bedrohungen des Menschen, insbesondere durch Krankheiten, werden durch das Auftreten und Agieren von Dämonen verursacht. Diese können aber mit Hilfe des Gottes Enki (Ea) und seines Sohnes Asalluhi (Marduk) abgewehrt werden. Die hier rekonstruierte Sammlung von 21 sumerischen und sumerisch-akkadischen Beschwörungen bildet einen Querschnitt durch die Ritualpraktiken zur Reinigung und Heilung von Kranken, die diesem Götterkreis zuzuordnen ist. Die Textherstellung basiert im wesentlichen auf Manuskripten aus der Bibliothek Assurbanipals in Ninive (7. Jahrhundert v. Chr.), die Beschwörungen gehen jedoch zum Teil auf frühere Niederschriften aus dem 2. Jahrtausend v. Chr. zurück. Die Ausgabe enthält in beträchtlichem Umfang erstmals publiziertes Material und leistet so einen Beitrag zur Rekonstruktion der religiösen Literatur des Alten Orients.

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Dieser Titel aus dem De Gruyter-Verlagsarchiv ist digitalisiert worden, um ihn der wissenschaftlichen Forschung zugänglich zu machen. Da der Titel erstmals im Nationalsozialismus publiziert wurde, ist er in besonderem Maße in seinem historischen Kontext zu betrachten. Mehr erfahren Sie .› This title from the De Gruyter Book Archive has been digitized in order to make it available for academic research. It was originally published under National Socialism and has to be viewed in this historical context. Learn more .›

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Wilhelm Halbfass, philosopher and Indologist, is a committed participant in the dialogue between India and Europe, whose reflections on the Indian tradition and its Western perception are accompanied by reflection on and critical examination of the Western tradition. In this innovative combination of Indological research and philosophical-hermeneutical research in the history of ideas, he demonstrates a purpose more ambitious and a scope wider than Edward Said's who constructed the Western study of the so-called Orient as an attempt to deprive it of its identity and sovereignty, and who perceived the pursuit of Oriental Studies in Western universities to be an extension of a fundamentally political will to power and domination. Without denying the domination of the dialogue between India and Europe by the West, Halbfass goes beyond that to show a different way of approaching Indian thought; he strives to establish the presuppositions and prerequisites that would make a true dialogue and mutual understanding between Indian and Western intellectual cultures possible. The papers in the present volume originate from twenty-three scholars of Indology, philosophy, religious studies, comparative theology, classics, folkloristics and political theory, working in eleven countries spread over three continents. They address central issues of Halbfass' work; his critical responses to them commence with an extensive essay in which he assesses in a masterly manner the state of Indian studies almost twenty years after the publication of Said's Orientalismz.

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In Europe, the historical representation and narration of China and the Orient more in general from an outsider's point of view has conjured up an exotic and a-historical image of a poetical, mystical and refined civilization. In Walpole's Britain, for example, "the argument from the Chinese"-namely, the admiration for a prosperous and densely populated kingdom which did not belong to a single faith-was frequently used in religious disputes when claiming a wider or more coherent policy of tolerance or seeking to cut down the prerogatives of the clerical hierarchies. This chapter explores further Western uses of "the argument from the Chinese" in modern times and through different media (Antonioni; Yanne; Martin).

Orientalism. --- Orientalism --- History.