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Mario Liverani,professore emerito di Storia del Vicino Oriente antico all'Università di Roma La Sapienza, ha tenuto corsi in molte università americane ed europee. Ha collaborato e collabora a scavi in Siria (Ebla), in Turchia (Arslantepe) e in Libia (Acacus). È autore di L'origine della città (Roma 1986), Akkad, the First World Empire (Padova 1993) e Myth and Politics in Ancient Near Eastern Historiography (London 2004). Per Laterza ha pubblicato: Guerra e diplomazia nell'Antico Oriente. 1600-1100 a.C.(1994); Uruk, la prima città(1998); Oltre la Bibbia. Storia antica di Israele (2003);Antico Oriente. Storia società economia (nuova edizione 2011); Immaginare Babele. Due secoli di studi sulla città orientale antica (2013).
Increasing inequalities – From the Eden to the present. E-book. Formato EPUB Mario Liverani - Gangemi Editore, 2017 -
Historiographic trends in the last decades were often intended to demonstrate that the monolithic views are simplistic and unrealistic, that the “meaningful” historical processes are arbitrary interpretations: human societies have always been complex, the top-down view is politically incorrect, the historical processes are less coherent than once believed to be, there is no centre vs. periphery, there is no progress, and so on. Passwords are complexity, inequality, resilience, transition, and others all of them inspired by caution, compromise, peer opportunities. I belong to a generation now dying, and can certainly appreciate the new trends, but feel obliged to add some qualifications. The first is that the task of the scholar (be he a historian or a physicist) is to point out the basic structures in a universe of individual diversities, therefore to build explicative models, not to reproduce the fragmentation of the existing world. The second is that the task of the historian is to point out the change (the transition if you prefer) of the characterising features, rather than the unavoidable continuity in the basic ones. The third is that we have to avoid anachronism, in applying to the past (even more to a remote past) social relationships that are typical of modernity. The turmoil of present time provides an enrichment of the range of the problems to be analysed, but should not influence their solution.