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Commentaire
''Commentaire'' is a French quarterly magazine, created in 1978 by Raymond Aron and Jean-Claude Casanova. Aron's previous journal venture, started in 1970 and titled ''Contrepoint'', had been terminated in 1976 following disagreements among its founders and its owner Patrick Devedjian. In a wide-ranging 2008 interview, Casanova described the decision to create Commentaire as having been made in late 1977 and involving, besides Aron and himself, a group of common friends that included Annie Kriegel, , Alain Besançon, , and . The journal's motto, a quote from Pericles, was suggested by Papaioannou: ''Il n’y a pas de bonheur sans liberté, ni de liberté sans vaillance'' ("there can be neither happiness without liberty, nor liberty without courage"). Pierre Manent was the author of a manifesto explaining the journal's purpose in the first issue. Among the journal's avowedly liberal inspirations, Casanova cited Montesquieu, Benjamin Constant, Alexis de Tocqueville, Élie Halévy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Sacco
Giuseppe Sacco (born 1 August 1938) is a tenured Italian academic specialised in international relations, with secondary interests in the fields of international economic relations, industrial and science and technology policy, international oil, the environment, and international migrations. He holds a Diplôme at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales of the University of Paris-Sorbonne, as well as a doctoral degree in political science, University of Naples, where he also spent three years in the department of engineering. In 1966 he obtained a Fulbright scholarship at Columbia University and, early in his career, he has also been, with a Ford Foundation grant, visiting scientist at "Resources for the Future" (Brookings Institution, Washington, DC) and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Academic career From 1980 until 2010 Sacco was a professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Claude Casanova
Jean-Claude Casanova (born 11 June 1934 in Ajaccio) is a French economist, educator and public intellectual with a lifetime involvement in French civic life. He was the chairman of the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques between 2007 and 2016. A centrist in politics, he cofounded the journal ''Commentaire'' with Raymond Aron in 1978, and since then has been its editor and publisher (''directeur''). Academic career and affiliations Casanova studied at where he received his Baccalauréat in 1951 and Institut des Hautes Etudes (1951-54) in Tunis, then at the University of Paris and at Sciences Po where he received a PhD in economics in 1957 and where he also chaired the Conférence Olivaint, a students association. In 1957-58 he visited the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He then taught economics at Sciences Po (1958-59), where he was one of the first scholars at the ''Centre de Recherches et d'etudes Internationales'' (CERI) in 1958. In 1961-63 he serve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Constant
Henri-Benjamin Constant de Rebecque (; 25 October 1767 – 8 December 1830), or simply Benjamin Constant, was a French people, Franco-Switzerland, Swiss political thinker, activist and writer on political theory and religion. A committed republican from 1795, he backed the coup d'état of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797) and the following one on 18 brumaire (9 November 1799). During the Consulat, in 1800 he became the leader of the Liberal Opposition. Having upset Napoleon and left France to go to Switzerland then to the Kingdom of Saxony, Constant nonetheless sided with him during the Hundred Days and became politically active again during the French Restoration. He was elected Député in 1818 and remained in post until his death in 1830. Head of the Liberal opposition, known as ''Indépendants'', he was one of the most notable orators of the Chamber of Deputies of France, as a proponent of the parliamentary system. During the July Revolution, he was a supporter of Louis Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Gurfinkiel
Michel Gurfinkiel (1 August 1948, Paris) is a French conservative journalist and public intellectual. He served as editor-in-chief of '' Valeurs Actuelles'' from 1985 to 2006. Biography He served as editor-in-chief of '' Perspectives'' from 1984 to 1985, and of ''Valeurs actuelles'' from 1985 to 2006. He serves on the editorial board of ''Valeurs acutelles'' and ''Commentaire''. His work has also been published in ''Commentary Magazine'', ''The Weekly Standard'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''PJ Media'', ''The New York Sun'', '' Politique Internationale'', ''Le Figaro'', ''L'Arche'', ''Limes'', '' Outre-Terre'', ''The Times'', '' The European'', '' The Middle East Quarterly'', ''The Jerusalem Post'', '' Azure'', '' Nativ: A Journal of Politics and the Arts'', '' The Jewish Review of Books, etc.Michel GurfinkielA Collision of Church and State ''The Wall Street Journal'', January 30, 2010 He has been a board member of the Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France sinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathieu Laine
Mathieu Laine (born April 9, 1975) is a French entrepreneur and intellectual. He is the founder and head of Altermind, a boutique consultancy firm based in Paris, London, Brussels and Berlin. He is an affiliate professor at Sciences Po Paris. He is the author of many essays on liberalism and works as an editorialist for the French weekly political magazines '' Le Point'' and ''Le Figaro''. He is a member of the team of the programme L'Esprit public on ''France Culture'' and author of a dozen essays and a musical tale. He chairs the Coppet Institute, a think-tank defending the French liberal heritage. He became a columnist '' Les Echos'' in September 2020. Life and career Son and grandson of doctors, Mathieu Laine joined in the 1990s the Idées action (Ideas-Action) movement of Alain Madelin, Minister of Enterprises and Economic Development in 1993 and 1995, then Minister of Economy and Finance in 1995. He became head of Idées-Actions' Youth Department and, in this capaci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Aron
Raymond Claude Ferdinand Aron (; 14 March 1905 – 17 October 1983) was a French philosopher, sociologist, political scientist, historian and journalist, one of France's most prominent thinkers of the 20th century. Aron is best known for his 1955 book '' The Opium of the Intellectuals'', the title of which inverts Karl Marx's claim that religion was the opium of the people; he argues that Marxism was the opium of the intellectuals in post-war France. In the book, Aron chastised French intellectuals for what he described as their harsh criticism of capitalism and democracy and their simultaneous defense of Marxist oppression, atrocities and intolerance. Critic Roger Kimball suggests that ''Opium'' is "a seminal book of the twentieth century". Aron is also known for his lifelong friendship, sometimes fractious, with philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. The saying "Better be wrong with Sartre than right with Aron." became popular among French intellectuals. As a voice of moderation in pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Manent
Pierre Manent (; born 6 May 1949, Toulouse) is a French political scientist and academic. He teaches political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, in the Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron. Every autumn, he is also a visiting teacher in Boston College at the Department of Political Science. After graduating from the École normale supérieure (Paris), École normale supérieure, he became assistant to Raymond Aron at the Collège de France. He was one of the founders of the quarterly ''Commentaire'' and remains a regular contributor. Manent is a key figure of the contemporary French political philosophy and his work has helped the rediscovery of the French Liberal School, French liberal tradition. A eurosceptic and a classical liberal, he has been called by ''The Weekly Standard'' "the most profound of the Euroskeptical philosophers". Bibliography In French *''Naissances de la politique moderne: Machiavel, Hobbes, Rousseau'' (Payot, 1997, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François De Mazières
François de Mazières (born 22 May 1960) is a French politician. He served as a member of the National Assembly, representing Yvelines from June 2012 to June 2017. He is mayor of Versailles The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, ... since March 2008. References 1960 births Living people People from Tarbes The Republicans (France) politicians Sciences Po alumni Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University alumni École nationale d'administration alumni Mayors of places in Île-de-France Union for French Democracy politicians Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres Deputies of the 14th National Assembly of the French Fifth Republic {{France-mayor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Caldwell (journalist)
Christopher Caldwell (born 1962) is an American journalist, and a former senior editor at ''The Weekly Standard'', as well as a regular contributor to the ''Financial Times'' and ''Slate''. He is a senior fellow at the Claremont Institute and contributing editor to the ''Claremont Review of Books''. His writing also frequently appears in ''The Wall Street Journal'', ''The New York Times'' (where he is a contributing editor to the paper's magazine), and ''The Washington Post''. He was also a regular contributor to ''The Atlantic Monthly'' and the ''New York Press'' and the assistant managing editor of ''The American Spectator. Early life and education Caldwell was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, and is a graduate of Harvard College, where he studied English literature. Career Caldwell's 2009 book ''Reflections on the Revolution in Europe'', which deals with increased Muslim immigration to Europe, received mixed reactions. ''The Economist'' newspaper called it "an important book as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thierry De Montbrial
Thierry de Montbrial (born 3 March 1943) is the executive chairman of the French Institute of International Relations (Ifri), which he founded in 1979. He is also the founder and chairman of the World Policy Conference (WPC), which he created in 2008. He has been a member of the French Academy of Moral and Political Sciences since 1992. He is an honorary member of numerous foreign academies. Biography Montbrial is the son of François, inspector-general of the Bank of France and Monique Lecuyer-Corthis. He married Marie-Christine de Montbrial (née Balling) in 1967, who is a movie producer ( StarDance Pictures) and daughter of Charles Balling (born in 1912; École Polytechnique in 1935). He is the father of Thibault de Montbrial, lawyer and of Alexandra Pilleux-de Montbrial. Education Montbrial graduated from the École Polytechnique (1963) and from the École des Mines (1969) as a general engineer. He received his doctorate in Economics from the University of California ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benoît Pellistrandi
Benoît Pellistrandi (born 1966) is a French historian and hispanist. Biography Born in 1966 in Paris. A student at the École normale supérieure, he earned a PhD in history. He served as Director of Studies of the Casa de Velázquez from 1997 to 2005. He was worked as lecturer at the Institut Catholique de Paris (ICP) and as teacher for ''classes préparatoires'' at the Lycée Condorcet. He has been a corresponding member of the Royal Academy of History The Real Academia de la Historia (RAH, 'Royal Academy of History') is a Spanish institution in Madrid that studies history "ancient and modern, political, civil, ecclesiastical, military, scientific, of letters and arts, that is to say, the diff ... since 2013. Works ;Author * * * ;Editor/Coordinator * * * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Pellistrandi, Benoît French Hispanists 20th-century French historians 1966 births École Normale Supérieure alumni Corresponding members of the Real Academia de la Histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Hassner
Pierre Hassner, born 31 January 1933 in Bucharest, Romania; died 26 May 2018 in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, was a geopolitologist and philosopher naturalized Romanian French. He was director of research emeritus at Center for International Studies and Research and at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He has also taught at the European Center at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna. In 2003, he received the Alexis de Tocqueville award. Biography Of Romanian Jewish origin, Pierre Hassner moved to France in 1948 at the age of fifteen with his parents who were fleeing the communist regime. The same year, he read ''The Great Schism'' by Raymond Aron, a book that left a deep impression upon him. He joined the École normale supérieure, obtaining the ''agrégation'' in philosophy in 1955. He became one of the students of Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss. In his ''Memoirs'' published in 1983, Raymond Aron wrote: "In I do not know what circumstances, Pierre Hassner, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
