Marcio LMJul 28, 2024

# Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity

By Stuart Elden ( @stuartelden )

The biographical links between Michel #Foucault and the comparative mythologist and philologist Georges #Dumézil have received more attention than their intellectual connections. This article contributes by surveying Foucault’s engagements, from a 1957 radio lecture to his late lectures at the Collège de France. Particular focus is on lectures on #structuralism and #history in 1970, some references between 1970 and 1981, and the use of Dumézil’s work in each of Foucault’s two final courses at the Collège de France. In each, Foucault takes up Dumézil’s analyses of #mythology in developing his own projects concerning history and #antiquity.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/jhi.2024.a933859

Project MUSE - Foucault and Dumézil on Antiquity

Show threadStuart EldenNov 14, 2022
As well as Foucault, I have ongoing interests in #territory, #Shakespeare and Henri #Lefebvre. My new project is on #Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France. I began reading Georges #Dumézil because of the Foucault connection, which led me to Emile #Benveniste’s work on Indo-European concepts, and the idea developed from there. There is more about this project, funded by a #LeverhulmeTrust major research fellowship, here - https://progressivegeographies.com/future-projects/indo-european-thought-in-twentieth-century-france/ (2/3)
Mapping Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France

Now the last of my Foucault books is published, the next major project will be a study of Indo-European thought in twentieth-century France, looking at both French and émigré scholars, with a parti…

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