This essay was originally written almost exactly thirteen years ago. I have withheld it from publication for all these years, because I considered the ideas in it a bit too speculative and daring. (more…)
Plato, detail of Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” 1509–1510
Plato, detail of Raphael’s “The School of Athens,” 1509–1510
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Translated by Greg Johnson
In 1938, Georges Dumézil discovered, the existence of a veritable Indo-European “ideology,” a specific mental structure manifesting a common conception of the world. He writes: