Clarisse Herrenschmidt
Clarisse Herrenschmidt (born 1946,
Life
Clarisse Herrenschmidt was born in Strasbourg in 1946. She obtained a Licence de Lettres (including Sanskrit studies) from the
Career
Herrenschmidt spent six months on site at the
In her work on linguistic evolution and the development of writing, in particular that of Persian from its
A question that exercised classicists and Iranists was on the direction of intellectual influences between ancient Greece and Persia. Prior to the 1940s, the thesis was that Persian doctrines influenced Greek thought, as evidenced for instance by
Herrenschmidt's 2007 work Les trois écritures. Langue, nombre, code explored the evolution of writing from the fourth millennium BC to modern times. It articulated three modes of writing: of languages, numbers, and of computer codes. It analysed the relationship between the material objects in the world and objects in language (and the distancing caused by language), and between the ways of writing and the ways of thinking. But cultural inertia, tradition and resistance to standardisation imply slow changes in the regimes of writing. Graphic regimes vary over time, while conveying a part of cultural inertia. The first part of the book lucidly described the advent of writing in Mesopotamia, with the relationships between things and written signs found in
Selected works
- Herrenschmidt, Clarisse (2007). Les trois écritures: langue, nombre, code (in French). Gallimard. ISBN 978-2-07-076025-1.
- Bottéro, Jean; Herrenschmidt, Clarisse; Vernant, Jean-Pierre (15 June 2000). Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Translated by Teresa L. Fagan. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-06715-5.
- Briant, Pierre; Herrenschmidt, Clarisse, eds. (1994) [1989]. Le tribut dans l'Empire perse (in French). Peeters. ISBN 9782908322149.
References
- ^ a b Duchesne-Guillemin 1979, p. 250.
- ^ Bonte 1997, p. 178.
- ^ Lincoln 2003, p. 140.
- ^ Lincoln 2001, p. 311–312.
- ^ a b Lincoln 2001, p. 313.
- ^ Lincoln 2001, p. 312.
- ^ Bonnet 2008, p. 282.
- ^ Bonnet 2008, p. 283.
- ^ Bonnet 2008, p. 284.
- ^ IEA 2008.
Bibliography
- Bonnet, Corinne (2008). "Les trois écritures. Langue, nombre, code, Bibliothèque des sciences humaines by Clarisse Herrenschmidt". Anabases (7). JSTOR 43595799.
- Bonte, Pierre (1997). "J. Bottéro, C. Herrenschmidt, J.-P. Vernant, L'Orient ancien et nous. L'écriture, la raison, les dieux: compte-rendu". L'Homme (in French). 37 (144).
- Duchesne-Guillemin, Jacques, ed. (1979). "Clarisse Herrenschmidt". Acta Iranica. collection fondée à l'occasion du 2500e anniversaire de la Fondation de l'Empire Perse par Cyrus le Grand. Vol. 20. Brill. ISBN 9789004059412.
- "Le Prix Georges Dumezil 2008 a été décerné à Madame Clarisse HERRENSCHMIDT". l’Institut d’Etudes Avancées de Nantes. 10 December 2008. Retrieved 28 April 2021.
- Lincoln, Bruce (2001). "The Center of the World and the Origins of Life". History of Religions. 40 (4): 311–326. S2CID 161405128.
- Lincoln, Bruce (2003). "À la Recherche du Paradis Perdu". History of Religions. 43 (2): 139–154. S2CID 162335303.
- Sini, Carlo (2002). La scrittura e il debito: conflitto tra culture e antropologia. Jaca Book. ISBN 978-88-16-40581-3.