Philol­o­gy and the appro­pri­a­tion of the world: Champollion’s hiero­glyphs This book sheds new light on the work of Jean-François Cham­pol­lion by uncov­er­ing a con­stel­la­tion of epis­te­mo­log­i­cal, polit­i­cal, and mate­r­i­al con­di­tions that made his deci­pher­ment of Egypt­ian hiero­glyphs pos­si­ble. Champollion’s suc­cess … Weit­er­lesen →