Comment prevoir l'inconnu et controler l'inattendu ? Les Anciens ont tente de repondre a ces questions en interpretant des signes dans lesquels il reconnaissaient des messages divins. Ce recueil permet de comparer la diversite de leurs questionnements dans les societes polytheistes ou monotheistes de la Mediterranee antique. Il interroge premierement la construction rituelle des signes au sein des institutions divinatoires; deuxiemement; des phenomenes naturels spontanes; qui; apparus hors de toute institution; ont neanmoins valeur de presages ou d'avertissements; troisiemement; l'intentionnalite manifestee a travers l'intervention divine dans l'histoire des peuples ou les vies singulieres; quatriemement; l'epistemologie des signes dans des elaborations philosophiques ou theologiques qui eclairent la tension entre donnees oraculaires et controle ritualise des signes; entre donnees revelees et argumentations raisonnees visant a neutraliser les injonctions du destin. How to foresee the unknown and master the unexpected? Ancient people tried to answer those questions by interpreting signs considered as divine messages. In this volume; the writers compare and examine this manifold questioning in the polytheistic and monotheistic societies of the ancient Mediterranean Sea. In the first place; it is shown how signs were ritually constructed within instituted practice of divination; second; how; although some spontaneous natural phenomena appeared out of any instituted context; may nevertheless constitute omens or monition; third; how the gods' intervention may reveal a sort of intention in the course of national history or individual life; finally; the essays study the epistemology of signs at work in some philosophical or theological elaborations; which may enlighten the tension between oracular evidence and ritual control of signs; and between revealed facts and reasoning arguments intending to neutralize the injunctions of the divine.
#1317824 in Books Krause Publications 2009-04-08Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 .80 x 8.10 x 10.60l; 2.10 #File Name: 0896896137256 pages
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The one must have book on civil war firearms.By Terry SandersThis is by far the very best reference book I have ever seen for civil war firearms. Example.... most books might mention that a Colt revolver had more than one make. This book will tell you that there were 4 different models. The serial numbers where the changes took place. The slight differences in the models. Even what to look for with fakes; and what post war models will look like. If I could only have one reference book on firearms; it would not even be a contest; this is the book. What I like the best about this book is that you do not have to read twenty pages to understand the history of a firearm. It is brief; and to the point. Very detailed information.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. This book is a very good catalog of Civil War firearms and I recommend it ...By Chuck Dinges MsgtThis book is a very good catalog of Civil War firearms and I recommend it to those who are not BIG TIME collectors and already know all of what is in it - and that is not me!0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy bcsatisfied
