Mesopotamia

Chronology
Rules of transcription and translation
Map
The Birth of the West
I: Assyriology
1: In Defense of a Useless Science
2: Assyriology and Our History
3: A Century of Assyriology
II: Writing
4: The "Avalanche" of Decipherments in the Ancient Near East between
1800 and 1930
5: From Mnemonic Device to Script
6: Writing and Dialectics, or the Progress of Knowledge
III: "Reasoning": Institutions and Mentality
7: Oneiromancy
8: Divination and the Scientific Spirit
9: The Substitute King and His Fate
10: The "Code" of Hammurabi
11: "Free Love" and Its Disadvantages
IV: "The Gods": Religion
12: The Religious System
13: Intelligence and the Technical Function of Power: Enki/Ea
14: The Dialogue of Pessimism and Transcendence
15: The Mythology of Death
Glossary-Index
References
Bibliographical Orientation