![]() ![]() ![]() For the “world spirit” to blow more freely, Hegel argued, world history had to travel from East to West.Īssyrian history shows that Hegel’s assessment of the East is flawed. This “orientalist” view, still widely held, goes back to Hegel, who considered the East a region characterized, from the earliest times onwards by stagnation and autocratic rule. Middle Eastern history is often perceived as an endless sequence of despotic regimes. Middle Eastern history is not unchangeable. Listen to the audio version-read by Eckart himself-in the Next Big Idea App. ![]() He has worked on cuneiform tablets in the British Museum in London, the Vorderasiatisches Museum in Berlin, the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, and a few other collections.īelow, Eckart shares five key insights from his new book, Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Empire. Previously, Frahm was a research assistant and Assistant Professor of Assyriology at Heidelberg. Eckart Frahm is a professor of Ancient Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Yale. ![]()
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