Maurice Olender
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French historian & academic
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maurice Olender was a Belgian-French historian, professor at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. His teaching focused in particular on the genesis of the idea of race in the nineteenth century. He also published widely on the intellectual history of the concepts of Indo-European languages and Proto-language, most importantly in his monograph Les langues du Paradis. As editor, he headed the journal and La librairie du XXIe siècle at Éditions du Seuil.
Maurice Olender's Published Works
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- The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century (1992) (123)
- Europe, or how to escape babel (1994) (15)
- Race and Erudition (2009) (6)
- We Are All Cannibals: And Other Essays (2016) (4)
- From the Language of Adam to the Pluralism of Babel (1997) (3)
- The Indo‐European mirror: Monotheism and polytheism (J.G. Herder, E. Renan, A. Pictet, F.M. Müller and R.F. Grau) (1987) (2)
- ASPECTS OF BAUBO: (2020) (1)
- Problematic metaphors for the temporality of languages (2023) (0)
- Between Sciences of Origins and Religions of the Future: Questions of Philology (2017) (0)
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