Jerrold Seigel

Jerrold Seigel is a prominent American historian. He is Professor Emeritus at New York University. He taught for twenty-five years at Princeton University.[1] 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."[2][3] He has been called "one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time."[4]

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)

References
  1. "Jerrold Seigel, PhD". Nour Foundation. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  2. "JERROLD SEIGEL". New York Institute for the Humanities.
  3. Caro, Monica (February 12, 2014). "Nanovic Institute awards $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize to 'Modernity and Bourgeois Life'". Notre Dame News. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
  4. "Between Cultures". upenn.edu. Retrieved 15 July 2017.
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