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de Wit, eds.,Ongewenste goden: De publieke rol van religie in Nederland(Amsterdam: Sun, 2006).
The Wiardi Beckman Stichting, the scientific bureau of the Social-Democratic Labor Party, Partij
van de Arbeid (PvdA), organized a symposium on religion and politics in June 2006, and the
Netherlands Scientific Council of Government Policy, Wetenschappelijke Raad voor het Regerings-
beleid (WRR), in The Hague, has founded a project group entitled Religion and the Public Domain,
to explore the possibilities of an official report with policy recommendations to the Dutch
government.

170. The notion of universal human rights has been contested by multiculturalists for its
     Western bias and by some Jewish thinkers, even those on the left, such as Yeshayahu Leibowitz, for
     incompatibility with Jewish law and its commandments, i.e.,Halachaandmitzvoth.


171. Jacques Derrida,Adieu to Emmanuel Levinas, trans. Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael
     Naas (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999).


172. See the informative introduction by Henri Gouhier to the centenary edition, Henri Berg-
     son,Oeuvres(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1959), xv.


173. Ibid., xi–xiv.


174. Ibid., xvi, cf. ix.


175. Ibid., xvi ; see Henri Bergson, inBulletin de la Socie ́te ́Franc ̧aise de Philosophie, session of
     May 2, 1901, 63, reprinted in Henri Bergson,E ́crits et paroles; textes reassemble ́s par R.-M. Mosse ́-
     Bastide(Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957–59), 1:158–59.


176. Gouhier, Introduction, in Bergson,Oeuvres, xvi.


177. Ibid., xvi–xvii ; see Bergson,Bulletin de la Socie ́te ́Franc ̧aise de Philosophie, session of May
     2, 1901, 63, inE ́crits et paroles, 1:158–59.


178. Gouhier, ‘‘Introduction,’’ in Bergson,Oeuvres, xxix.


179. Jane Bennett,Thoreau’s Nature, 2d ed. (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), and
     idem,The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, and Ethics(Princeton: Princeton
     University Press, 2001).


180. For an examination of such a deconstructive turn, in particular in Derrida’s writings on
     religion, see myPhilosophy and the Turn to Religion.


181. The term is introduced by the Chairman and CEO of IBM, Samuel Palmisano, in ‘‘Multi-
     nationals Have Been Superseded,’’ in theFinancial Times, June 12, 2006.

Marcel Detienne, The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities

note: This essay was original delivered as the 2002 Henry Myers Lecture at the Royal Anthro-
pological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, in London. It was published inArion12, no. 2 (Fall
2004): 49–66, and appears here courtesy of the author.Marcel Detienne, 2004.

1. See the following works: Marcel Detienne,Comparer l’incomparable(Paris: Seuil, 2000);
   ‘‘Murderous Identity: Anthropology, History and the Art of Constructing Comparables,’’Common
   Knowledge8, no. 1 (2002): 178–87; ‘‘Back to the Village: A Tropism of Hellenists?’’History of
   Religions141 (2001): 99–113; ‘‘L’Art de construire des comparables: Entre historiens et anthropo-
   logues,’’Critique internationale, no. 14 (2002): 68–78.


2. Robert Hertz Lecture (Paris, June 2002): Marcel Detienne, ‘‘Des comparables dans le champ
   du politique: Entre nous, ethnologues et historiens,’’Gradhiva, 2005, 1, 5–17.
   3.Qui veut prendre la parole?under the direction of Marcel Detienne (Paris: Seuil, 2003).


3. Marcel Detienne, ‘‘Experimenting in the Field of Polytheisms,’’Arion7, no. 1 (Spring/
   Summer 1999): 127–49;Apollon,le couteau a`la main(Paris: Gallimard, 1999).

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