Race and Erudition

Maurice Olender

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

    • Acknowledgments
    • Preface to the English- Language Edition: “Race” without History
    • Introduction: Racism, a Semantic Trap

          • The Hunt for (Self-)Evidence

        1. Pierre Charles, the Society of Jesus, and Protocols of the Elders of Zion

          2. The Indo- European Idea between Myth and History

        2. The Revival of Indo-European Studies: Georges Dumézil (1898–1986)
        3. Political Uses of Indo-European Prehistory
        4. Discussion after the Lecture “Political Uses of Indo-European Prehistory”
        5. The Secret Feasts of Georges Dumézil: A Dialogue (1983)
        6. The Long Indo-European Memory

          7. III. The Black Gold of Origins

        7. Mircea Eliade (1907–1986)
        8. History of Religions and the Nostalgia for Origins: On the Eliade–Pettazzoni Correspondence

          9. IV. Alterities

        9. Barbarophilia and Greek Wisdom: Arnaldo Momigliano (1908–1987)

          10. V. Two Figures of Resistance

        10. An Untimely Lucidity: Marcel Mauss (1872–1950)
        11. A Historian of Forgetting: Léon Poliakov (1910–1997)

          12. VI. The Silence of a Generation

        12. The Nazi Past of German Universities: Rudolf Schottlaender (1900–1988)
        13. Hans Robert Jauss (1921–1997)
        14. The University, Barbarism, and Memory, by Karlheinz Stierle
        15. “The Radical Strangeness of Nazi Barbarism Has Paralyzed a Generation of Intellectuals”: Dialogue with H. R. Jauss (1996)
        16. On Silence as a Possible Form of Witnessing
        • Postscript for Günter Grass
        • Notes
        • Sources
        • Index
  • Cover: Race and Erudition

Maurice Olender is Maître de Conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.