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Jacques Barzun was born in Créteil, France on November 30, 1907. He came to the United States in 1920 and graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1927. Following graduation, he joined Columbia's faculty as an instructor while continuing his studies in graduate school there, receiving mostra altro a master's degree in 1928 and a doctorate in French history in 1932. He became a full professor in 1945, was dean of graduate faculties from 1955 to 1958, and dean of faculties from 1958 to 1967. He retired from Columbia University in 1975. He was a historian and cultural critic. The core of his work was the importance of studying history to understand the present and a fundamental respect for intellect. Although he wrote on subjects as diverse as detective fiction and baseball, he was especially known for his many books on music, nineteenth-century romanticism and education. His works include Darwin, Marx and Wagner: Critique of a Heritage; Romanticism and the Modern Ego; The House of Intellect; Race: A Study in Superstition; Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers; A Stroll with William James; The Culture We Deserve; and From Dawn to Decadence. He died on October 25, 2012 at the age of 104. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: "With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40

Opere di Jacques Barzun

Modern American Usage: A Guide (1966) — A cura di — 474 copie
Simple & Direct (1975) 449 copie
Teacher in America (1945) 239 copie
A Stroll with William James (1983) 159 copie
The Use and Abuse of Art (1974) 141 copie
A Catalogue of Crime (1971) 127 copie
The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman (1957) — A cura di — 23 copie
The Delights of Detection (1961) 21 copie
Music in American life (1956) 20 copie
Of human freedom (1977) 11 copie
Classic stories of crime and detection (1976) — A cura di — 4 copie

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L'assassinio di Roger Ackroyd (1926) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni9,922 copie
Le varie forme dell'esperienza religiosa : uno studio sulla natura umana (1902) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni5,160 copie
Bouvard e Pécuchet (1881) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni1,203 copie
Dizionario dei luoghi comuni: Album della Marchesa, Catalogo delle idee chic (1913) — Translation, introduction, and notes, alcune edizioni; Traduttore — 525 copie
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Collaboratore — 335 copie
The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (1956) — Collaboratore — 327 copie
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence (1968) — Collaboratore — 267 copie
The Best American Essays 2002 (2002) — Collaboratore — 220 copie
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works (1769) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni219 copie
The Best American Essays 1990 (1990) — Collaboratore — 117 copie
Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History (1954) — Preface — 112 copie
Evenings with the Orchestra (1852) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni98 copie
Le notti di Parigi, o Lo spettatore notturno (1788) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni87 copie
Meta-Politics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind (1941) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni59 copie
Great Baseball Stories (1979) — Collaboratore — 47 copie
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Collaboratore — 39 copie
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Collaboratore — 35 copie
The Academic Marketplace (1958) — Prefazione, alcune edizioni30 copie
A linguistics reader (1900) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
The Selected Letters of Lord Byron (1953) — A cura di — 18 copie
The Clerihews of Paul Horgan (1984) — Introduzione — 15 copie
Phaedra and Figaro: Racine's Phèdre (1961) — Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni; Traduttore, alcune edizioni13 copie
Books in Our Future: Prospectives and Proposals (1987) — Collaboratore — 6 copie
The Later Ego 4 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Barzun, Jacques
Nome legale
Martin-Barzun, Jacques
Data di nascita
1907-11-30
Data di morte
2012-10-25
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
France (birth)
USA (naturalized 1933)
Luogo di nascita
Créteil, France
Luogo di morte
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Luogo di residenza
Créteil, France
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Grenoble, France
Istruzione
Columbia University (BA | 1927 | valedictorian | MA | 1928 | PhD | 1932)
Attività lavorative
historian
writer
Relazioni
Lowell, Mariana (wife)
Davenport, Marguerite Lee (wife)
Organizzazioni
Columbia University
Philolexian Society (president)
Charles Scribner's Sons
Premi e riconoscimenti
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003)
Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur
National Humanities Medal (2010)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Philosophical Society (1984)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1952) (mostra tutto 12)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1954)
Edgar Award (1972)
St. Louis Literary Award (1968)
Melville Cane Poetry Award (1993)
Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement (2011)
Académie Delphinale
Breve biografia
Jacques Barzun was born in France in 1907. He grew up in Paris and, at twelve years old, was sent by his father to the United States to receive an American university education. In 1923 he entered Columbia College and graduated four years later at the top of his class, having been a prize-winning president of the prestigious Philolexian Society. He went on to lecture at Columbia, where he earned his Ph.D in 1932, became a full professor in 1945, and later became Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Faculties, and Provost. In 1967 he resigned from his administrative duties to focus on teaching and writing until his retirement in 1975. Over seven decades, Barzun had written and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including science and medicine; psychiatry from Robert Burton through William James to modern methods; art; and classical music - he was one of the all-time authorities on Hector Berlioz. After a period of poor health, he was advised that he had several years of life ahead, and this encouraged him to complete his last and largest book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), which became an unexpected bestseller and critically acclaimed success. Dr. Barzun was widely known in America and in Europe as a trenchant critic of modern trends in education, music and the arts, and he is also a specialist in musical history. Among his many commendations, he had been featured on the cover of Time magazine (1956); he was awarded the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which society he was elected in 1952 and twice served as its president; and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003 and he was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Jacques Barzun died October 25, 2012, at the age of 104 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Daniel Boorstin and Jacques Barzun in Ancient History (Aprile 2011)

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Solo uno studioso come Jacques Barzoun poteva accumulare la messe di ocnoscenze e sopratutto giungere all'ampiezza di visioe necessarie per raccontare in un solo libro, con tale profondità di sintesi, l'ascesa e il declino , tra il 1500 e il 2000, della civiltà occidentale [...] mella limpida, meditata e mai scontata visione di Barzun, la nostra civiltà è segnata dal susseguirsi di quattro grandi rivoluzioni - religiosa, monarchica, liberale e sociale- e l'ultima epoca, dal 1920 a oggi, è quella della decadenza.… (altro)
 
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Utenti
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Popolarità
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Voto
4.0
Recensioni
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ISBN
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Lingue
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Preferito da
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