ジャック・バーザン

ジャック・バーザン（Jacques Barzun、1907年11月30日 - 2012年10月25日）は、フランスのグルノーブルで生まれ、1933年にアメリカ合衆国に帰化した哲学者、歴史家。

４０歳の時の絵画

2012年10月25日、テキサス州サンアントニオで死去。104歳没。

著書

• 1932 The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications
• 1937 Race: a Study in Modern Superstition (Revised, 1965 Race: A Study in Superstition)
• 1939 Of Human Freedom
• 1941 Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage
  • 『ダーウィン、マルクス、ヴァーグナー　知的遺産の批判』野島秀勝訳、法政大学出版局・叢書ウニベルシタス, 1999
• 1943 Romanticism and the Modern Ego
• 1945 Teacher in America
• 1951 Pleasures of Music
• 1954 God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words
• 1956 Music in American Life
• 1956 The Energies of Art
• 1959 The House of Intellect
• 1960 Lincoln the Literary Genius (first published in The Saturday Evening Post, 14 February 1959)
• 1961 The Delights of Detection
• 1961 Classic, Romantic, and Modern
• 1964 Science: The Glorious Entertainment
• 1967 What Man Has Built (introductory booklet to the Great Ages of Man book series)
• 1968 The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going
• 1969 Berlioz and the Romantic Century (3d ed.)
• 1971 On Writing, Editing, and Publishing
• 1971 A Catalogue of Crime (with Wendell Hertig Taylor)
• 1975 Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers
• 1976 The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century
• 1980 Three Talks at Northern Kentucky University
• 1982 Lincoln's Philosophic Vision
• 1982 Critical Questions
• 1983 A Stroll with William James
• 1986 A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language
• 1989 The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment
• 1991 An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English Poetry
• 1991 Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning
• 2000 From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present
• 2001 Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass
• 2002 A Jacques Barzun Reader
• 2002 What is a School? and Trim the College!
• 2003 The Modern Researcher (6th ed.) (with Henry F. Graff)
• 2004 Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001-2004

Barzun has also translated a number of works of French literature into English, and edited writings by others, including the selected letters of Lord Byron and John Jay Chapman.

外部リンク

• article by Thomas Vinciguerra
• Site devoted to writings about Barzun, including interviews.
• Barzun 100 blog celebrating Barzun's centennial
• Barzun Centennial website
• In Depth with Jacques Barzun from C-SPAN's BookTV, 6 May 2001 (RealPlayer file)
• Interview with Barzun in The Austin Chronicle, 2003

On From Dawn to Decadence:

• A synopsis along with a short bio of the author.
• Kimball, Roger, "Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western culture," New Criterion, 18 June 2000. A positive take.
• Kenan Malik, "Review." Independent on Sunday, 25 February 2001.
• Reilly, John J., 2000, "Review", First Things 107: 43-44.
• Is Democratic Theory for Export? PDF of speech presented at Carnegie Council's Sixth Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture