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Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society Paperback – November 15, 2016

by Émile Benveniste (Author), Elizabeth Palmer (Translator)
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Since its publication in 1969, Émile Benveniste’s Vocabulaire―here with a new introduction by Giorgio Agamben―has been the classic reference for tracing the institutional and conceptual genealogy of the sociocultural worlds of gifts, contracts, sacrifice, hospitality, authority, freedom, ancient economy, and kinship. A comprehensive and comparative history of words with analyses of their underlying neglected genealogies and structures of signification―and this via a masterful journey through Germanic, Romance, Indo-Iranian, Latin, and Greek languages―Benveniste’s dictionary is a must-read for anthropologists, linguists, literary theorists, classicists, and philosophers alike.

This book has famously inspired a wealth of thinkers, including Roland Barthes, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Pierre Bourdieu, Jacques Derrida, Umberto Eco, Giorgio Agamben, François Jullien, and many others. In this new volume, Benveniste’s masterpiece on the study of language and society finds new life for a new generation of scholars. As political fictions continue to separate and reify differences between European, Middle Eastern, and South Asian societies, Benveniste reminds us just how historically deep their interconnections are and that understanding the way our institutions are evoked through the words that describe them is more necessary than ever.
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    November 15, 2016
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  6. ISBN-10
    0986132594
  7. ISBN-13
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"This masterpiece of the human sciences of the twentieth century is crossed by a genuinely poetic impulse. Indo-European institutions do not appear so much as 'states' or as 'substances' but as living relationships in motion in the minds of men who think and speak. . . . This is why, by setting itself apart from works that are only similar in appearance, Benveniste’s Dictionary remains a totally unique work, which no inquiry in the humanities could do without." -- Giorgio Agamben, author of Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

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Émile Benveniste (1902–1976) was a French linguist and semiotician and professor of linguistics at the Collège de France until 1969. He is the author of many works on Indo-European languages, including Problems in General Linguistics. Along with Claude Lévi-Strauss and Pierre Gourou, Benveniste was also cofounder of the anthropological journal L’Homme.
 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HAU; 1st edition (November 15, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 594 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0986132594
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0986132599
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.86 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.8 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.9 4.9 out of 5 stars 24 ratings

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Utterly ESSENTIAL. Every poet and philosopher and psychoanalyst should have this book for reference.
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Vittorio Ferretti
4.0 out of 5 stars Kein Wörterbuch aber eine nützliche etymologische Recherche des soziologischen Wortschatzes
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Den Titel der französischen Urfassung "Le vocabulaire des institutions Indo-Européennes" (1969) haben die Herausgeber der englischen Ausgabe (1973, Nachdruck 2016) statt mit "vocabulary" (Wortschatz) mit "dictionary" (Wörterbuch) übersetzt. Tatsächlich werden in 54 Kapiteln die Grundbegriffe des Altgriechischen und Lateinischen zu den Themen Familienkreis und sozialer Status, Handel und Wirtschaft, Herrschaft, Gesetzgebung und Religion ohne alphabetische Ordnung mit einem angenehmen Duktus besprochen. Der Autor fokussiert das Altgriechische und Lateinische, mit sporadischen Hinweisen auf das Baltische, Slawische, Germanische und Keltische. Dabei erweist er sich als profunder Kenner der altgriechischen und lateinischen Quellen, aus denen er zum Beleg seiner etymologischen Thesen gezielt Textstellen zitiert. Dank seines ausgeprägten Gespürs für Grundkonnotationen kommt er in den meisten Fällen zu einleuchtenden Ergebnissen, obwohl er als Indoeuropäist klassischer Prägung die indoeuropäische Sprachfamilie als Monade betrachtet, aus der man alle ihre Urbedeutungen autoreferenziell ablesen könne, ohne andere Sprachfamilien zu berücksichtigen.
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