Fwd: Georges Dum�zil and ' la tradition ' in academia today.

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Indo-Eurasian_research ,

" esocialsciencenews2005 " <esocialsciencenews2005 wrote:

 

 

[Moderator's note. Dum & #65533;zil's name may be raised by someone when we

discuss Eurasian comparative mythology -- at least one List member

(Nick Allen) has a deep interest in Dum & #65533;zil's work. I'm not sure what

reaction if any this post will raise, but it is Sunday, and here it

is. -- saf]

 

 

Today the tripartite ideas of Georges Dum & #65533;zil's are often identified

with the `New Right'in France (which is neither right nor left of

course),Jean-Marie-le Pen ,Alain de Benoist , Synergies Europ & #65533;ennes,

and so on.

 

Does anybody on this list knows how sound some of the other ideas of

Georges Dum & #65533;zil (mentioned under the heading " Nordic Orientalism " in a

soon to be released book by )are from an academic point of view ?

 

And who are some of the academics today, that follow in the footsteps

of the traditionalism (sometimes called perenialism )of Mirceau Eliade

(I use `traditionalism' here in the sense Mark Sedgwick's " Against

the Modern World " ) and Georges Dum & #65533;zil ?

 

For example perennialist,traditionalist, positions sometimes divide,

for example mystical experiences, into a few basic categories that

transcend cultural boundaries but are described in culturally bound

language. Thus Traditionalists often do not refer to the customary

rites and practices which anthropologists study today (April 2005) nor

do they accept the utilitarian approach of Edmund Burke and Russell

Kirk, who treat it as the accumulated wisdom of former ages; rather

they view it as a transhistorical body of principles under girding the

world's religions. Tradition in his view is that which is immutable

and perpetually reborn in a people's experience of its history, for it

is rooted in a people's primordial substratum (hence the term

'traditionalism'which ofcourse ever since Alfred Rosenberg has been

also p'oliticised').

 

John Hopkins

 

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