Alain Besançon
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Alain Besançon | |
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| Born | 25 April 1932 |
| Died | 9 July 2023 (aged 91) |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Member of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques, 1996 |
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| Institutions | École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris |
Alain Besançon (25 April 1932 – 9 July 2023) was a French historian.[1] He specialised in intellectual history and Russian politics. From 1965 to 1992 he was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris.[2]: 98 [1] He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France in 1996.[1]
His book L'Image interdite, une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme (1994) was translated into English as The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm in 2000 and published by the University of Chicago Press.[2][3]
Besançon died on 9 July 2023, at the age of 91.[4]
Publications
- Le Tsarévitch immolé, 1967.
- Histoire et expérience du moi, 1971.
- Entretiens sur le Grand Siècle russe et ses prolongements (co-author), 1971.
- Éducation et société en Russie, 1974.
- L'Histoire psychanalytique, une anthologie, 1974.
- Être russe au XIXème siècle, 1974.
- Court traité de soviétologie à l'usage des autorités civiles, militaires et religieuses, 1976 (preface by Raymond Aron).
- Les Origines intellectuelles du léninisme, Calmann-Lévy, 1977.
- La Confusion des langues, 1978.
- Présent soviétique et passé russe, Livre de poche, Paris, 1980 (réédité : Hachette, Paris, 1986).
- Anatomie d'un spectre: l'économie politique du socialisme réel, Calmann-Lévy, Paris, 1981.
- Courrier Paris-Stanford (co-author), 1984.
- La Falsification du bien, Soloviev et Orwell, 1985.
- Une génération, Julliard, 1987.
- Vendredis, 1989.
- L'Image interdite, une histoire intellectuelle de l'iconoclasme, 1994.
- Trois tentations dans l'Église, 1996.
- Aux sources de l’iconoclasme moderne, 1998.
- Le Malheur du siècle : sur le communisme, le nazisme et l'unicité de la Shoah, Fayard, 1998, 166 p.
- Émile et les menteurs, 2008.
- Cinq Personnages en quête d'amour. Amour et religion, 2010.
- Sainte Russie, 2012.
- Le Protestantisme américain. De Calvin à Billy Graham, 2013.
- Problèmes religieux contemporains, 2015.
References
- ^ a b c Notice de personne: Besançon, Alain (1932–....) (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Accessed November 2017.
- ^ a b Ann K. Riggs (2002). The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm (book review). The Catholic Historical Review 88 (1): 98–99. doi:10.1353/cat.2002.0043. (subscription required).
- ^ Book review. Common Knowledge 8 (2002), p. 417.
- ^ "Mort de l'historien Alain Besançon, figure de l'anti-totalitarisme". Figaro Vox. 9 July 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2023.
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