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Jacques Barzun was born in Créteil, France on November 30, 1907. He came to the United States in 1920 and graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 1927. Following graduation, he joined Columbia's faculty as an instructor while continuing his studies in graduate school there, receiving mostrar mais a master's degree in 1928 and a doctorate in French history in 1932. He became a full professor in 1945, was dean of graduate faculties from 1955 to 1958, and dean of faculties from 1958 to 1967. He retired from Columbia University in 1975. He was a historian and cultural critic. The core of his work was the importance of studying history to understand the present and a fundamental respect for intellect. Although he wrote on subjects as diverse as detective fiction and baseball, he was especially known for his many books on music, nineteenth-century romanticism and education. His works include Darwin, Marx and Wagner: Critique of a Heritage; Romanticism and the Modern Ego; The House of Intellect; Race: A Study in Superstition; Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers; A Stroll with William James; The Culture We Deserve; and From Dawn to Decadence. He died on October 25, 2012 at the age of 104. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Image credit: "With Light from a New Dawn", painting by Eric Robert Morse, 2005, depicting Jacques Barzun in profile at around the age of 40

Obras por Jacques Barzun

Modern American Usage: A Guide (1966) — Editor — 474 exemplares
Simple & Direct (1975) 449 exemplares
Teacher in America (1945) 240 exemplares
The Modern Researcher [5th ed.] (1992) 201 exemplares
Classic, Romantic, and Modern (1943) 174 exemplares
The Modern Researcher [6th ed.] (2003) 172 exemplares
A Stroll with William James (1983) 159 exemplares
The Use and Abuse of Art (1974) 141 exemplares
The Modern Researcher [4th ed.] (1985) 134 exemplares
A Catalogue of Crime (1971) 127 exemplares
The Modern Researcher [3rd ed.] (1977) 103 exemplares
The Modern Researcher [Rev. ed.] (1970) 48 exemplares
Berlioz and the romantic century (1950) 46 exemplares
The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman (1957) — Editor — 23 exemplares
The Delights of Detection (1961) 21 exemplares
Music in American life (1956) 20 exemplares
Of human freedom (1977) 11 exemplares
Classic stories of crime and detection (1976) — Editor — 4 exemplares
The Interpretation of History (1983) 3 exemplares
Berlioz: Requiem 1 exemplar
Lincoln the Literary Genius (1960) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (1926) — Introdução, algumas edições9,947 exemplares
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) — Prefácio, algumas edições5,168 exemplares
Bouvard and Pécuchet (1881) — Tradutor, algumas edições1,204 exemplares
Dictionary of Received Ideas (1913) — Translation, introduction, and notes, algumas edições; Tradutor — 526 exemplares
Baseball: A Literary Anthology (2002) — Contribuidor — 336 exemplares
The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present (1956) — Contribuidor — 327 exemplares
The Historian as Detective: Essays on Evidence (1968) — Contribuidor — 267 exemplares
The Best American Essays 2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 220 exemplares
Rameau's Nephew, and Other Works (1769) — Tradutor, algumas edições219 exemplares
The Best American Essays 1990 (1990) — Contribuidor — 117 exemplares
Men, Women and Pianos: A Social History (1954) — Preface — 112 exemplares
The Baseball Reader: Favorites from the Fireside Book of Baseball (1980) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
Evenings with the Orchestra (1852) — Tradutor, algumas edições98 exemplares
Les Nuits de Paris (1788) — Introdução, algumas edições87 exemplares
Meta-Politics: The Roots of the Nazi Mind (1941) — Contribuidor, algumas edições59 exemplares
Great Baseball Stories (1979) — Contribuidor — 47 exemplares
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Contribuidor — 39 exemplares
Partisan Review: The 50th Anniversary Edition (1905) — Contribuidor — 35 exemplares
The Academic Marketplace (1958) — Prefácio, algumas edições30 exemplares
A linguistics reader (1900) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
The Selected Letters of Lord Byron (1953) — Editor — 18 exemplares
The Clerihews of Paul Horgan (1984) — Introdução — 15 exemplares
Phaedra and Figaro: Racine's Phèdre (1961) — Tradutor, algumas edições; Tradutor, algumas edições; Tradutor, algumas edições13 exemplares
Books in Our Future: Prospectives and Proposals (1987) — Contribuidor — 6 exemplares
The Later Ego 4 exemplares
Crime in good company : essays on criminals and crime-writing (1959) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Barzun, Jacques
Nome legal
Martin-Barzun, Jacques
Data de nascimento
1907-11-30
Data de falecimento
2012-10-25
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
France (birth)
USA (naturalized 1933)
Local de nascimento
Créteil, France
Local de falecimento
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Locais de residência
Créteil, France
Paris, France
New York, New York, USA
San Antonio, Texas, USA
Grenoble, France
Educação
Columbia University (BA | 1927 | valedictorian | MA | 1928 | PhD | 1932)
Ocupações
historian
writer
Relações
Lowell, Mariana (wife)
Davenport, Marguerite Lee (wife)
Organizações
Columbia University
Philolexian Society (president)
Charles Scribner's Sons
Prémios e menções honrosas
Presidential Medal of Freedom (2003)
Chevalier de l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur
National Humanities Medal (2010)
Gold Medal, American Academy of Arts and Letters
American Philosophical Society (1984)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1952) (mostrar todos 12)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1954)
Edgar Award (1972)
St. Louis Literary Award (1968)
Melville Cane Poetry Award (1993)
Philolexian Award for Distinguished Literary Achievement (2011)
Académie Delphinale

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Jacques Barzun was born in France in 1907. He grew up in Paris and, at twelve years old, was sent by his father to the United States to receive an American university education. In 1923 he entered Columbia College and graduated four years later at the top of his class, having been a prize-winning president of the prestigious Philolexian Society. He went on to lecture at Columbia, where he earned his Ph.D in 1932, became a full professor in 1945, and later became Dean of the Graduate School, Dean of Faculties, and Provost. In 1967 he resigned from his administrative duties to focus on teaching and writing until his retirement in 1975. Over seven decades, Barzun had written and edited more than forty books touching on an unusually broad range of subjects, including science and medicine; psychiatry from Robert Burton through William James to modern methods; art; and classical music - he was one of the all-time authorities on Hector Berlioz. After a period of poor health, he was advised that he had several years of life ahead, and this encouraged him to complete his last and largest book, From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present (2000), which became an unexpected bestseller and critically acclaimed success. Dr. Barzun was widely known in America and in Europe as a trenchant critic of modern trends in education, music and the arts, and he is also a specialist in musical history. Among his many commendations, he had been featured on the cover of Time magazine (1956); he was awarded the Gold Medal for Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which society he was elected in 1952 and twice served as its president; and he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2003 and he was awarded the 2010 National Humanities Medal by President Obama. Jacques Barzun died October 25, 2012, at the age of 104 in San Antonio, Texas.

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Daniel Boorstin and Jacques Barzun em Ancient History (Abril 2011)

Críticas

This book filled in much of what I think I missed from not studying liberal arts. It's a lot to take in, but very worthwhile.
 
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bballard74 | 37 outras críticas | Feb 29, 2024 |
A fairly comprehensive look at the cultural history of the modern era. However his predictions for the future do not take into account the problems of ecological change, resource depletion or environmental degradation.
 
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ritaer | 37 outras críticas | Jan 14, 2024 |
This book is a long read on the cultural history of the west, requiring nearly as much time to think about what the author says as to read it. It is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking books I've ever read. I had post-it flags throughout marking passages whose ideas I wanted to discuss with my husband. It is not a book I could read with distractions or when tired, and so it took me a while to finish, what with all the kids and all the work making me almost always distracted, tired, or both. After finishing, I'm actually a little sad to part from Jacques Barzun and his sharp mind and sharp tongue. Despite my long to-read list and the length and density of this book and the challenge of finding the time and mental energy for it, I fully expect to return to it, to reread parts or the whole, when I want to spend some time sitting around with a great mind with no patience for muddled thinking and intellectual laziness.… (mais)
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z-bunch | 37 outras críticas | Apr 14, 2023 |
To get the four stars you have to ignore the last 200 pages or so. His politics ,his cultural bias and his economics all stop the book cold and is kinda disappointing.
 
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soraxtm | 37 outras críticas | Apr 9, 2023 |

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Obras
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Also by
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Membros
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Popularidade
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Avaliação
4.0
Críticas
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ISBN
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Línguas
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Marcado como favorito
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