Jerrold Seigel
{{short description|American historian}}
Jerrold Seigel is an American historian who is Professor Emeritus at New York University. He taught for twenty-five years at Princeton University.{{cite web|title=Jerrold Seigel, PhD|url=http://www.nourfoundation.com/speakers/Jerrold-Seigel-PhD.html|website=Nour Foundation|accessdate=15 July 2017}} His book Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (2012), won the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize for "the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole."{{cite web|title=JERROLD SEIGEL|url=http://nyihumanities.org/jerrold-seigel/|website=New York Institute for the Humanities}}{{cite news|last1=Caro|first1=Monica|title=Nanovic Institute awards $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize to 'Modernity and Bourgeois Life'|url=http://news.nd.edu/news/nanovic-institute-awards-10-000-laura-shannon-prize-to-modernity-and-bourgeois-life/|accessdate=15 July 2017|work=Notre Dame News|date=February 12, 2014}} He has been called "one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time"{{cite web|title=Between Cultures|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15444.html|website=upenn.edu|accessdate=15 July 2017}} and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.
Bibliography
- Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life (Princeton University Press, 1978)
- Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (Viking, 1986)
- The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture (University of California Press, 1995)
- The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
- Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
- Between Cultures: Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives (Penn Press, 2015)
- Remaking the World: European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
References
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External links
- [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/books/indiscretions-of-the-bourgeoisie.html "Indiscretions of the Bourgeoise"], review of Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (1986) in New York Times
- [https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP544/Jerrold%20Seigel-The%20Idea%20of%20the%20Self_%20Thought%20and%20Experience%20in%20Western%20Europe%20since%20the%20Seventeenth%20Century-Cambridge%20Universit.pdf The Idea of Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century] (2005)
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