Georges Dumézil
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Part 1 of 6
Author’s Note:
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…)
G. W. F. Hegel, 1770-1831
4,986 words
Part 3 of 5
Ricardo Duchesne
The Uniqueness of Western Civilization
Leiden: Brill, 2011
7. Hegel and the Struggle for Recognition
Jacques-Louis David, “The Coronation of Napoleon,” 1907, detail
8,635 words
Translated by Jon Graham
Three authors considered as outstanding representatives of “traditionalist thought” turned their attention to the same doctrinal question. (more…)
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:
