L’égyptologue auteur: Entre tentation épistémique et réalisation personnelle

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As Philippe Derchain used to develop in his writings at least since his article“Auteur et société” published in the mid-1990s, the Egyptian author is nothingwithout the Egyptological author. From this point of view, this article will examinethe auctorial activity of the Egyptologist as an intermediary between the Egyptianauthor and the modern reader. A historiographical approach focuses in particularon Derchain’s scientific procedures. In this way, the dynamics of intellectualoperations and the tools he employed during his scholarly career in the study ofEgyptian religion more broadly and myth in particular are made accessible. Thisresults in a heterogeneous interpretive gesture that a comparison with thereception by the Egyptological reader illuminates, a singular way in which theepistemic appeal and personal development of the Egyptological author emergefrom the empirical reading of some significant works.