Anthropology Of Phoenician Genius

ISBN-13: 9786206191896 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str.

Karam Clovis

Opis

Had we not been afraid of being too ambitious, we would have given our third book on the Phoenician trilogy a second subtitle: Introduction to a Philosophy of History. For such is the ultimate purpose of this essay. When we examined the myths of the Phoenix, El, Baal, Adonai and Moloch, fundamental conceptions of historical Lebanon, we were particularly struck by their antagonism and complementarity, followed by an obvious anti-historical dynamic. A very feminine attitude, as well as a desire to reject the history of a "race slaughtered" by the greatest misfortunes ever borne by a nation. Our sociocriticism fits into this framework of analysis, while going beyond structural or other models of analysis. It would never be possible to ignore such a fact: here, more than anywhere else, men suffer the unfortunate consequences of the gods' battles. Between the terror of Moloch, the devourer of humans, and the redemptive forces of the Phoenix, Lebanon's destiny seems to be forever being replayed.

O autorze

Dr. Clovis Yussef Karam is a Franco-American originally from southern Lebanon, near the illustrious Phoenician city of Sidon. His complicity with Phoenician Mythology and the land of the Phoenix and the Eternal Cedars, goes back beyond the benches of schools and university libraries. Currently, Dr. Karam is a professor at California CSUS.