Pierre Vidal Naquet

Pierre Emmanuel Vidal-Naquet, born 23 July 1930 at Paris and died 29 July 2006 in Nice , is a historian and Hellenist French. Preface of hundreds of books the most diverse ^Biography

His family belonged to the community Jewish Comtadine of Carpentras , near Avignon. He was educated in a secular environment and a Republican. His father was a lawyer " Dreyfus "that soon joined the Resistance. In June 1940, the family fled to Marseilles , and studied at the Lyce Perier. 15 May 1944 , his parents, Lucien and Margot, were arrested in Marseille by the Gestapo , deported and "swallowed one and the other at Auschwitz in 1944 " . After the deportation of his parents, Pierre Vidal-Naquet is hiding in the house of her grandmother in the Drome. He took the opportunity to engage in intensive reading, including the Iliad , and met his cousin, the philosopher Jacques Brunschwig.

He discovered Surrealism ( Andre Breton , Rene Char and Antonin Artaud ) and, at the age of 18, founded the magazine with Reckless Pierre Nora. Reader Marc Bloch , his vocation as a historian born. In 1949 , the trial of Rajk Hungary definitely takes away any desire to join the French Communist Party.

Father of three children, he was an officer of the Legion of Honour and Commander of the Order of the Phoenix by Greece. Reader Dumezil and Levi-Strauss , he joined the School of Paris, consisting of his friend Jean-Pierre Vernant (with whom he wrote several books), Nicole Loraux and Marcel Detienne.

He died at the hospital in Nice on July 29 2006.

Among his students there are historians Franois Hartog , Maurice Sartre , Pauline Schmitt-Pantel and Alain Schnapp.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet is among the family members of Jose Bery , Francine Bloch , Marcel Dassault and Darius Milhaud.

Vidal-Naquet wrote several autobiographical texts referred to, including "Why and how I became a historian" (Rencontres de Blois 2002) and "Sketch of a journey anticolonial" (2001) . He has also written memoirs, published in 1998.

Academic career

Student class of Hypokhgne and khgne in Marseille and the Lyce Henri-IV in Paris, where he was classmate and former friend of Robert Faurisson , he studied history and became Doctor s-lettres (1955) and Associate of history. He married in 1952. That same year he became interested in Plato. He was appointed for one year at high school Pothier of Orleans before joining the University of Caen (1956-1960), where Alain Corbin is his student. He then studied mainly in ancient Greece. He also collaborated in editing the works of Leon Blum , notably Francois Furet. In 1960 , he followed the teaching of Jean-Pierre Vernant. He joined the University of Lille between 1961 and 1962.

He devotes his research to the ancient Greeks , the Jewish history and the contemporary history. He also expressed confidence that the continent called Atlantis by Plato is simply an invention of it and was "just the imperial Athens in ^the fifth century" . Came to the EHESS in 1966, he became director of studies in 1969. It is one of the readers of Record of the library of the Fondation Maison des sciences of man.

A committed intellectual left

Besides ancient Greece, his chosen field, he is interested in contemporary subjects such as war in Algeria and the drama of the Holocaust. Intellectual committed to defending human rights , he campaigned against the torture in Algeria and against colonialism. In 1956 , he published in the journal Esprit testimony about atrocities of the French army. From 1957 , he took a job as a historian on the death of Maurice Audin , a young French mathematician, who was arrested and disappeared in Algeria since: he defends the thesis of his death under torture against it, officially, his escape extinction. It is a book, L'Affaire Audin, published in 1958 and reissued, largely completed, years later. He participated in "Audin Committee. He published in 1962 The Good Shepherd, a book denouncing the use of torture. For signing in 1960 the " Manifesto of the 121 "petition of intellectuals on the Right of Insubordination in the war Algeria, the Ministry of Education him off his post for a year (while leaving his salary).

Marxist anti- Stalinist , he was briefly a member of the Socialist Unity Party and a supporter of socialism or barbarism , but never considered himself an activist of a political party, the PSU for him being a "simple talking circle. "

With Michel Foucault and Jean-Marie Domenach , he signed on February 8 1971 the manifesto of the Information Group on Prisons. He is a member of the committee sponsoring the French Coalition for the Decade for the Culture of Peace and Nonviolence.

In spring 1979 , Cornelius Castoriadis and he strongly criticized Bernard-Henri Levy in Le Nouvel Observateur for improperly checked his references in his book The Will of God (the first edition of the book quoted testimony to the Nuremberg trials of Heinrich Himmler , so that it committed suicide during his capture), said "contemporary" distant events of several centuries, citations, and conducted without mentioning the authors. The conflict over several issues, until John Daniel terminated with a final reply by Bernard-Henri Levy. This should be its reference error and because it does not always mention because the authors of this he cites .

He is involved in the defense of Luke Tangorra , comdamn for a series of rapes in Marseille whose lawyer is the brother of Pierre Vidal-Naquel Franois Vidal-Naquet.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet also engaged in the fight against Holocaust denial , as evidenced by his memoirs, or publication of the book The Assassins of Memory in 1995. However, he will be sentenced in January 2001 for defaming the revisionist Henri Roques. He had submitted a thesis in comparative literature at the University of Nantes (thesis subsequently annulled administrative irregularities), dedicated to Kurt Gerstein. Pierre Vidal-Naquet wrote about it in his memoirs: "If I think a witness in a position to know,

. Pierre Vidal-Naquet and his publisher had withdrawn before the appellate court that the case be retried, the 2001 ruling was considered final. A controversy arose between the early 1980s to the American intellectual Noam Chomsky on the support that he gave the denier Robert Faurisson threatened in their fundamental rights. Noam Chomsky believes that it has only support freedom of expression by Robert Faurisson without historical support his thesis , while Pierre Vidal-Naquet was accused of having gone beyond this support principle by characterizing Faurisson such as "relatively apolitical sort of liberal" and to have maintained its position of pride and irritation have been contradicted .

In July 2003, he participated in the call " Another Jewish Voice , "which brings together Jewish leaders in solidarity with the Palestinian people for a just and lasting peace in the Middle East.

Main works

The Ancient History and traditions

• Cleisthenes the Athenian, with Pierre Lvque , Les Belles Lettres , 1964
• Slip the stocking in Ptolemaic Egypt, Brussels, Association Egyptological Queen Elizabeth , 1967
• Economy and society in ancient Greece. Archaic and Classical periods, with Michael Austin, Armand Colin , 1972
• Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, with Jean-Pierre Vernant , Franois Maspero , 1972, La Dcouverte , 2005
• Ancient Greece. I: From myth to reason, with Jean-Pierre Vernant, Le Seuil , coll. Test Points, 1990
• Ancient Greece. II: Space and Time, with Jean-Pierre Vernant, Le Seuil, coll. Test Points, 1991
• Ancient Greece. III: Rites of passage and transgressions, with Jean-Pierre Vernant, Le Seuil, coll. Test Points, 1992
• Oedipus myth and, with Jean-Pierre Vernant, Complexe, 2001
• Labour and Slavery in Ancient Greece, with Jean-Pierre Vernant, Complexe, 2002
• The Black Hunter. Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek world, Franois Maspero , 1981, La Dcouverte , 2005
• Greek Democracy for elsewhere, Flammarion , 1990
• The Greeks, historians and democracy, Discovery , 2000
• The Broken Mirror: Tragedy and Athenian politics, Les Belles Lettres, 2002 (new edition)
• The World of Homer, Perrin Academic Bookstore, 2002
• Fragments of ancient art, Agnes Vinot, 2002
• Atlantis. Short Story of a Platonic myth, Les Belles Lettres, 2005, ISBN 225138071X
• Flavius Arrian between two worlds, afterword to the translation by Peter Savinel Life of Alexander of Arrian , Les Editions de Minuit , coll. Arguments, 1984
• Making Good Use of treason, introduction to the translation by Peter Savinel of The Jewish War of Flavius Josephus , Editions de Minuit, coll. Arguments, 1988

Contemporary history and personal testimony

On the War of Algeria

• L'Affaire Audin, 1957-1978, Editions de Minuit, 1989 Of the Jews, the Holocaust and Holocaust denial
  • Assassins of Memory , Knopf, 1995 - whose self-titled 5 ^th chapter of the book is available online
  • The Jews, the memory and the present, Le Seuil, 1995
  • Preface of Arno Mayer , The Final Solution in History, La Dcouverte , 2002

  On Jean Moulin

  • Trait poisoned, Discovery , 1993, 2002

  In May 1968

  • Alain Schnapp: Journal of the common student. Texts and documents. November 1967 - June 1968 (first edition in 1969 ), revised and enlarged edition, Le Seuil, collection "The World History", 1988.

  Memoirs

  • Memoirs t.1 - The rupture and expectation, 1930-1955, Le Seuil, 1998
  • Memoirs t.2 - Haze and light, 1955-1998, Le Seuil, 1998

  Other texts

  Articles

  • "In Faurisson and Chomsky" , 21 November 1980
  • "A Paper Eichmann" , 1980
  • "A stubborn loyalty. French resistance to the war in Algeria " , Twentieth Century, No. 10, 1986.
  • "Understanding the diary kept by Lucien Vidal-Naquet (1993) between 15 September 1942 and February 29, 1944" , Annales, 1993.

  Interviews

  • The State did not say how to teach history , interview with Pierre Vidal-Naquet Herv Nathan, Liberation, April 14, 2005.
  • Truth indicative , interview with Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Din, No. 17, Fall 2001.
  • Pierre Vidal-Naquet interview with Thierry Paquot (Paris XII) in January 1998.
  • Encouraging direct Papon , maintenance of Pierre Vidal-Naquet with Jean-Paul Pierot, L'Humanit , October 17, 1997.
  • "The responses of Pierre Vidal-Naquet and Michel Foucault "(about the state of emergency declared in Poland by General Jaruzelski , republished in M. Foucault Dits et crits IV, No. 302)
  • A fight against the lies and truths official , interview with Pierre Vidal-Naquet Anne Tristan and Christian Roques, Ras l'Front, No. 110, February / March 2006

  References

  1. Marcel Bnabou , "PVN preface or form side of history", in Pierre Vidal-Naquet, historian in the city, La Dcouverte, 1998, pages 58-66.
  2. Memoirs t.2 - Haze and light, page 9.
  3. Both texts have been collected in The Choice of History, 2004, editions Arla.
  4. History is my struggle, P. 38.
  5. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, My business Dreyfus
  6. Memoirs t.2 - Haze and light, page 19. See also his book, Atlantis. Short Story of a Platonic myth.
  7. The criticism of the Testament of God by Bernard-Henri Levy (1979) on the site of P. Vidal-Naquet.
  8. Text of the Judgement of the Court of Cassation of 13 January 2005
  9. See especially "Some Elementary Comments on The Rights of Freedom of Expression" , October 11, 1980 and "His Right to Say It" , February 28, 1981. French, see the book unpublished responses to my critics in Paris, Spartacus , 1984.
  10. Pierre Vidal-Naquet, "On Faurisson and Chomsky" , November 21, 1980.
  11. In his review of books written about the events of May 1968 the historian Michel de Certeau believed in May 1969 that the book Schnapp and Vidal-Naquet was "now, the book of information" (Taking speech and other political writings, Points Essais, 1994, p. 124, De Certeau's emphasis).

  See also

  Bibliography

  • Francis Gze, "Pierre Vidal-Naquet, man rebelled. One who helped us take, " Movements , No. 49 2007 / 1, p. 124-127. External Links
    • Site dedicated to Pierre Vidal-Naquet
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