Arthur Goldhammer

Arthur Goldhammer (born November 17, 1946) is an American academic and translator.

Early life

Goldhammer studied mathematics at MIT, gaining his PhD in 1973.

Career

Since 1977 he has worked as a translator. He is based at the Center for European Studies at Harvard.

Goldhammer is a four-time winner of the French-American Foundation translation prize, including for his translations of Alexis de Tocqueville's '' The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution'' and ''Democracy in America''.

Goldhammer's translation of Thomas Piketty's book ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'' became a ''New York Times'' best-seller.

Personal life

Goldhammer lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Works translated

* ''The institutions of France under the absolute monarchy, 1598-1789'' by Roland Mousnier, 2 vols, 1979–1984.
* ''The three orders: feudal society imagined'' by Georges Duby, 1980.
* ''Time, work & culture in the Middle Ages'' by Jacques Le Goff, 1980.
* ''The Arabs'' by Maxime Rodinson, 1981.
* ''Medieval slavery and liberation'' by Pierre Dockès, 1981.
* ''The heights of power: an essay on the power elite in France: with a new postscript, 1981'' by Pierre Birnbaum, 1982.
* ''Nature's second kingdom: explorations of vegetality in the eighteenth century'' by François Delaporte, 1982.
* ''The psychiatric society'' by Robert Castel, Françoise Castel, and Anne Lovell, 1982.
* ''The sociology of the state'' by Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum, 1983.
* ''The birth of purgatory'' by Jacques Le Goff, 1984
* ''Understanding Imperial Russia: state and society in the old regime'' by Marc Raeff, 1984
* ''How New York stole the idea of modern art: abstract expressionism, freedom, and the cold war'' by Serge Guilbaut, 1985
* ''Montaigne in motion'' by Jean Starobinski, 1985.
* ''Disease and civilization: the cholera in Paris, 1832'' by François Delaporte, 1986.
* ''Outside: selected writings'' by Marguerite Duras, 1986.
* ''To be a slave in Brazil, 1550-1888'' by Katia de Queirós Mattoso, 1986.
* ''Homosexuality in Greek myth'' by Bernard Sergent, 1986.
* ''The poor in the Middle Ages: an essay in social history'' by Michel Mollat, 1986.
* ''From pagan Rome to Byzantium. A history of private life'', vol. I, ed. Paul Veyne. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1987.
* ''In the beginning was love: psychoanalysis and faith'' by Julia Kristeva, 1987
* ''Ideology and rationality in the history of the life sciences'' by Georges Canguilhem, 1988.
* ''Revelations of the medieval world. A history of private life'', vol. II, ed. Georges Duby and Philippe Aries, 1988.
* ''The medieval imagination'' by Jacques Le Goff. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988.
* ''Jean-Jacques Rousseau, transparency and obstruction'' by Jean Starobinski, 1988.
* ''Wind spirit: an autobiography'' by Michel Tournier, 1988.
* ''Passions of the Renaissance. A history of private life'', vol. III, ed. Roger Chartier, 1989.
* ''Dionysos at large'' by Marcel Detienne, 1989.
* ''A critical dictionary of the French Revolution'', ed. François Furet and Mona Ozouf, 1989.
* ''The living eye'' by Jean Starobinski, 1989.
* ''From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War. A history of private life'', vol. IV, ed. Michelle Perrot, 1990.
* ''Greek virginity'' by Giulia Sissa, 1990.
* ''The history of yellow fever: an essay on the birth of tropical medicine'' by François Delaporte, 1991.
* ''Between church and state: the lives of four French prelates in the late Middle Ages'' by Bernard Guené, 1991.
* ''A history of private life. Vol.5: Riddles of identity in modern times'', ed. Antoine Prost and Gérard Vincent, 1991.
* ''The Vichy syndrome: history and memory in France since 1944'' by Henry Rousso, 1991.
* ''The village of cannibals: rage and murder in France, 1870'' by Alain Corbin, 1992.
* ''The languages of Paradise: race, religion, and philology in the nineteenth century'' by Maurice Olender, Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1992.
* ''A History of women in the West. 1, From ancient goddesses to Christian saints'', ed. Pauline Schmitt Pantel, 1992.
* ''Sade: biography'' by Maurice Lever, 1993.
* ''Blessings in disguise, or the morality of evil'' by Jean Starobinski, 1993.
* ''A vital rationalist: selected writings from Georges Canguilhem'' by Georges Canguilhem, ed. François Delaporte], 1994.
* ''History continues'' by Georges Duby, 1994.
* ''Histories: French constructions of the past'', ed. Jacques Revel and Lynn Hunt, 1995.
* ''A small city in France'' by Françoise Gaspard, 1995.
* ''Realms of memory: rethinking the French past'', ed. Pierre Nora, 1996–98. 3 vols.
* ''The beggar and the professor: a sixteenth-century family saga'' by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, 1997
* ''The Roman Empire'' by Paul Veyne, 1997.
* ''France in the enlightenment'' by Daniel Roche, 1998.
* (tr. with others) ''Literary debate : text and context'', ed. by Denis Hollier and Jeffrey Mehlman, 1999.
* ''The measure of the world: a novel'' by Denis Guedj, 2001
* ''Saint-Simon and the court of Louis XIV'' by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, with the collaboration of Jean-François Fitou, 2001.
* (tr. with others) ''Antiquities'', ed. by Nicole Loraux, Gregory Nagy and Laura Slatkin, 2001.
* ''Paris: capital of the world'' by Patrice Higonnet, 2002.
* ''Democracy in America'' by Alexis de Tocqueville, 2003.
* ''The kill'' by Émile Zola, 2004.
* ''Camus at Combat: writing 1944-1947'' by Albert Camus, 2006
* ''Inscription and erasure: literature and written culture from the eleventh to the eighteenth century'' by Roger Chartier, 2007
* ''Vital nourishment : departing from happiness'' by François Jullien, 2007
* ''The demands of liberty: civil society in France since the Revolution'' by Pierre Rosanvallon, 2007.
* ''Counter-democracy : politics in an age of distrust'' by Pierre Rosanvallon, 2008.
* ''Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: their friendship and their travels'' by Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, ed. Oliver Zunz, 2010
* ''The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution'' by Alexis de Tocqueville, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
* ''Democratic Legitimacy: Impartiality, Reflexivity, Proximity'' by Pierre Rosanvallon, 2011
* ''Empire's Children: Race, Filiation, and Citizenship in the French Colonies'' by Emmanuelle Saada, 2012.
* ''Capital in the Twenty-First Century'' by Thomas Piketty, 2014
*
The Economics of Inequality
' by Thomas Piketty, 2015
* ''Capital and Ideology'' by Thomas Piketty, 2020

References

External links

Arthur Goldhammer's blog on French politics

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