Alienation: The Experience of the Eastern Mediterranean (50600 A.D.),Used

Alienation: The Experience of the Eastern Mediterranean (50600 A.D.),Used

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This book is a comprehensive study of the experience of alienation in its many and interrelated manifestations as attested in the lateantique East. It situates Christianitys enduring legacy in its early historical context and explores the way estrangement from all worldly attributes was elevated to the status of a cardinal religious virtue. The author analyzes the reasons for the new faiths concern for the marginalized and shows the contemporary relevance of social utopia as an antidote to alienation. Christianitys contradictions are also examined as, in opposing the existing legal order, the followers of the monotheistic religion inadvertently supported the violence of the imperial authority and its laws. Further, the study focuses on the existentialist and psychological dimensions of timehonoured metaphors, such as Life is a theatre and Dead to the world, and investigates mental illness in late antiquity. Finally, the early origins of the modern concept of the self are traced back to the ideological transformations that marked the slow transition from antiquity to the middle ages.

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