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. 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." He has been called "one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time."

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

External links

"Indiscretions of the Bourgeoise"
review of ''Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930'' (1986) in ''New York Times''

''The Idea of Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century''
(2005)

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20th-century American historians
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21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
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