Tag: Georges Dumézil
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Melville, Marx and Me
Reading Time: 3 minutesI criticized some of Loren Goldner’s statements in a previous post, but now I want to praise his ideas for other reasons. I appreciate his explanation for why American radicalism differs from European radicalism. America’s Unique Connection to the Old Testament Americans have a different historical perspective than Europeans. In Goldner’s words, …
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The Warrior and His Gods
Reading Time: 12 minutesIn “The Stakes of the Warrior” Georges Dumézil uses his theory of the tri-functional structure of Indo-European society as a framework for the analyses of stories belonging to three different areas of the world; India, Scandinavia, and Greece. His comparative study includes the Scandinavian saga of Starkaṓr, the Indian tale of Śiśupāla,…