A Social History of an Intellectual Failure : Anquetil-Duperron's Defense of the Orient and of Oriental Studies A pioneer among European students of Oriental religions and languages, Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805) also authored "Législation orientale" (1778). Against Montesquieu's concept of Oriental despotism ("De l'esprit des lois", 1748), Anquetil-Duperron's book is an attempt to establish the rationality of the socio-political systems of India, Persia and the Ottoman empire. The attempt failed, the book remained unnoticed, and Anquetil-Duperron's work did not get full recognition in the French République des Lettres. This essay explores the social and intellectual dimensions of such a failure.Fondateur, parmi d'autres, des études sur l...
Cumont thought “his” Oriental Religions were superior to ancient Graeco-Roman polytheism. He was not...
Jean-Claude Berchet : Chateaubriand and oriental despotism. It does not matter that the theory of "...
Abstract of Georges Duhamel et la Civilisation, thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts by...
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron (1731-1805) a pioneer of Oriental philology, was also a real hum...
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron (1731-1805) a pioneer of Oriental philology, was also a real hum...
Anquetil-Duperron was one of the main critics of Montesquieu’s concept of despotism, a tenacious opp...
This article examines two conceptions of Indian inter-state politics articulated by French officials...
C Malamoud, 1993, "Critique et critique de la critique de l'orientalisme", Livre blanc de l'oriental...
Bien qu'il prétende traiter d'orientalisme, tant au sens strict que large, Edward W. Saïd (1935-2003...
abstract : The aim of this article is to clarify how comparativism refashioned the field of oriental...
This work is studying the connections between what we call, in a simplist vision, the « West » and t...
Percevoir signifie recevoir une information, la prendre en compte, la confronter aux données de notr...
The history of intellectual and cultural contact between West and East is very complicated and contr...
Fifteen years before Edward Said published his seminal book Orientalism, Anouar Abdel-Malek (1924-20...
L'Occident se serait sécularisé lorsque l'islam aurait échoué : cette frontière organise les discour...
Cumont thought “his” Oriental Religions were superior to ancient Graeco-Roman polytheism. He was not...
Jean-Claude Berchet : Chateaubriand and oriental despotism. It does not matter that the theory of "...
Abstract of Georges Duhamel et la Civilisation, thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts by...
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron (1731-1805) a pioneer of Oriental philology, was also a real hum...
Abraham Hyacinthe Anquetil Duperron (1731-1805) a pioneer of Oriental philology, was also a real hum...
Anquetil-Duperron was one of the main critics of Montesquieu’s concept of despotism, a tenacious opp...
This article examines two conceptions of Indian inter-state politics articulated by French officials...
C Malamoud, 1993, "Critique et critique de la critique de l'orientalisme", Livre blanc de l'oriental...
Bien qu'il prétende traiter d'orientalisme, tant au sens strict que large, Edward W. Saïd (1935-2003...
abstract : The aim of this article is to clarify how comparativism refashioned the field of oriental...
This work is studying the connections between what we call, in a simplist vision, the « West » and t...
Percevoir signifie recevoir une information, la prendre en compte, la confronter aux données de notr...
The history of intellectual and cultural contact between West and East is very complicated and contr...
Fifteen years before Edward Said published his seminal book Orientalism, Anouar Abdel-Malek (1924-20...
L'Occident se serait sécularisé lorsque l'islam aurait échoué : cette frontière organise les discour...
Cumont thought “his” Oriental Religions were superior to ancient Graeco-Roman polytheism. He was not...
Jean-Claude Berchet : Chateaubriand and oriental despotism. It does not matter that the theory of "...
Abstract of Georges Duhamel et la Civilisation, thesis submitted for the degree of Master of Arts by...