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Beginning with a brilliant study of the Protocols of Zion, the book turns to Indo-European origins of language, culture, and human “types” and moves on to studying some of the more important figures in the twentieth century, such as Eliade, Dumézil, and Momigliano. Olender elegantly teases out the cultural history of the word “race,” a history that explains its diverse political uses and its continuing relevance to our global contemporary society. In doing so, he provides an accessible and lucid pathway through the labyrinth of race and erudition and examines how to deal with diversity without the problematic heritage of racial stereotypes.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674034044 |
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| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Publication date: | 09/30/2009 |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.30(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.90(d) |
| Language: | French |
About the Author
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to the English- Language Edition: “Race” without History
- Introduction: Racism, a Semantic Trap
- Pierre Charles, the Society of Jesus, and Protocols of the Elders of Zion
- The Revival of Indo-European Studies: Georges Dumézil (1898–1986)
- Political Uses of Indo-European Prehistory
- Discussion after the Lecture “Political Uses of Indo-European Prehistory”
- The Secret Feasts of Georges Dumézil: A Dialogue (1983)
- The Long Indo-European Memory
- Mircea Eliade (1907–1986)
- History of Religions and the Nostalgia for Origins: On the Eliade–Pettazzoni Correspondence
- Barbarophilia and Greek Wisdom: Arnaldo Momigliano (1908–1987)
- An Untimely Lucidity: Marcel Mauss (1872–1950)
- A Historian of Forgetting: Léon Poliakov (1910–1997)
- The Nazi Past of German Universities: Rudolf Schottlaender (1900–1988)
- Hans Robert Jauss (1921–1997)
- The University, Barbarism, and Memory, by Karlheinz Stierle
- “The Radical Strangeness of Nazi Barbarism Has Paralyzed a Generation of Intellectuals”: Dialogue with H. R. Jauss (1996)
- On Silence as a Possible Form ofWitnessing
The Hunt for (Self-)Evidence
The Indo- European Idea between Myth and History
III. The Black Gold of Origins
IV. Alterities
V. Two Figures of Resistance
VI. The Silence of a Generation
- Postscript for Günter Grass
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
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Race and Erudition is a brilliant, riveting work of warning and illumination. It is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand the fabric, or rather the fabrication, at the highest (and lowest) levels, of the social fictions and myths of otherness, by which we live and die, by which we continue to suffer and inflict often atrocious suffering.
Race and Erudition is a brilliant, riveting work of warning and illumination. It is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand the fabric, or rather the fabrication, at the highest (and lowest) levels, of the social fictions and myths of otherness, by which we live and die, by which we continue to suffer and inflict often atrocious suffering.
— Peter Sacks, author of O Wheel and Necessity