Paul-Marie Veyne, born 13 June 1930 in Aix-en-Provence , is an archaeologist and historian French, a specialist in ancient Rome. Alumnus of the Ecole Normale Superieure , a member of the French School in Rome (1955-1957), he is professor emeritus of the College de France.

Biography

Born into a popular medium that defines itself as "ignorant", he falls for archeology and history at the age of eight by discovering, on a site Celtic , near the town of Cavaillon A tip of amphora. The civilization Roman is in the middle where he grew up, the best known, it is what he is interested in particular. He performs his early schooling at Lyce Thiers to Marseille.

As a boy, he regularly attends the Roman collection of the Archaeological Museum of Nmes , where he was spotted by the curator who takes him under his wing. He claims not to have interested the Greeks or Romans by humanism , or even by particular admiration, but just by chance discovery of his child.

Landed in Paris to begin his khgne , he said he suffered a shock in front of the bas-relief celebrating the liberation of the city down the Boulevard Saint-Michel (the "Boul'Mich '") and joined the French Communist Party , he left four years later without ever having any real political conviction.

However, the maltreatment of the settlers against Algerian rebellion as well as the atrocities of Nazism. That's Paul Veyne a new shock, but again, the shock is not social but moral.

In 1975 , he entered the College de France with the support of Raymond Aron (then abandoned by his former dolphin Pierre Bourdieu ) who wants to see this Normale who take care of his work after his death. Paul Veyne but forgets to mention his name during his inaugural lecture that Aron can not forgive him. "For Aron, it was a terrible shock, the sign of my gratitude. And from that day he began to persecute me after having been elected ... " ^Works

Paul Veyne continues to publish books which, for a new writing of history, it combines scholarship with fair words, values, Nietzsche (especially through his studies of the circus games) to approach the subject with pulsed Michel Foucault. It also claims the influence of sociologist Max Weber , the historian Henri Marrou Irenaeus and the work of young Aron on the "critical philosophy of history."

He also leads a discussion on the emergence and victory of Christianity in the Roman Empire , an issue which is the subject of his latest book published in 2007 when our world became a Christian (312-394).

The Greeks did they believe their myths? Essay on the constitutive imagination is his best-known work of the general public.

Meanwhile, he published a landmark study on the work and person of Rene Char , a passion fruit carefully over forty years: Rene Char's poems (Gallimard, 1990) and a essay on Michel Foucault (Albin Michel, 2008).

Reviews

"A little later I had the greatest intellectual experience of my life reading the book dazzling Paul Veyne, Bread and Circus"

- Jon Elster .

"There are two major kinds of skeptics: Those who believe in nothing from laziness, fatigue, from indolence, minds as" distinguished "as totally disinterested in everything. And those who believe that they have understood, experienced, proven and verified. Veyne of course is the second race, good. "

- Claude Roy .

'P. Veyne constantly helped me during these years. He knows what it's like looking into a real historian, true, but he also knows the labyrinth in which we enter when we want to do the gaming history of true and false, it is one of those fairly rare today, who are willing to confront the danger that carries with it any thought to the question of the history of truth. His influence on these pages is difficult to define. "

- Michel Foucault , about the changes introduced between 1976 and 1984 in the research series on the History of Sexuality .

Awards

• 2006 : Prix Chateaubriand for Empire Greco-Roman (Seuil).
• 2007 : Price of the Senate's history book
• 2009 : Roger Caillois price of the test

Publications

Books

• How history is written: test epistemology , Paris, Editions du Seuil , "The Universe History", 1970 repr. plus "Foucault Revolutionizes History", 1978. ( ISBN 2-02-002668-6 ), repr. Short followed by "Foucault Revolutionizes History" in the collection "Points-history", 1979. ( ISBN 2-02-005283-0 ), "Points-history", 1996. ( ISBN 2-02-028778-1 )
• Bread and Circus. Historical sociology of political pluralism, Paris, Editions du Seuil, "The Universe history, 1976. ( ISBN 2-02-004507-9 ), repr. in the collection "Points-history", 1995. ( ISBN 2-02-025463-8 )
• Inventory differences. Inaugural lecture at the Collge de France, Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1976. ( ISBN 2-02-004508-7 )
• The Roman Erotic Elegy. Love, Poetry and the West, Paris, Editions du Seuil, "Pierre bright," 1983. ( ISBN 2-02-006555-X ), repr. in the collection "Points-history", 2003. ( ISBN 2-02-062171-1 )
• The Greeks did they believe their myths? Essay on the constitutive imagination, Paris, Editions du Seuil, "Work", 1983. ( ISBN 2-02-006367-0 ), repr. in the collection "Points-history", 1992. ( ISBN 2-02-015953-8 )
• Ren Char's poetry, Paris, Gallimard, "NRF tests", 1990. ( ISBN 2-07-071974-X ), repr. in the collection "Tel", 1995. ( ISBN 2-07-074102-8 )
• The Roman Society, Paris, Editions du Seuil, "Work," 1991. ( ISBN 2-02-012987-6 ), repr. plus an introductory text in the collection "Points-history", 2001. ( ISBN 2-02-052360-4 )
• The Daily and interesting. Interviews with Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, Paris, Les Belles Lettres , 1995. ( ISBN 2-251-44048-8 ); repr. Paris, Hachette, Pluriel, 1997. ( ISBN 2-01-278817-3 ), 2006. ( ISBN 2-01-279326-6 )
• Sex and power in Rome, preface Jerphagnon Lucien , Paris, Tallandier, 2005. Collection of articles previously publ. in the journal History (1978-2004). ( ISBN 2-84734-244-3 ), repr. in the collection "Points-history", 2007. ( ISBN 978-2-7578-0420-9 )
• The Greco-Roman Empire, Paris, Editions du Seuil, "Work", 2005. Increased collection of articles previously published and edited various journals (2000-2004). ( ISBN 2-02-057798-4 ), repr. Paris, ditions France Loisirs, 2006. ( ISBN 2-7441-9610-X )
• with Lawrence Greilsamer, Rene Char, Paris, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Culturesfrance, "Authors", 2007. ( ISBN 978-2-35312-019-2 )
• When our world has become Christian (312-394), Paris, Editions Albin Michel, "Ideas," 2007 ( ISBN 978-2-226-17609-7 ).
• Seneca. An introduction, preface by Lucien Jerphagnon , followed by the letter 70 of the Letters to Lucilius, Paris, Tallandier, "Texto", 2007. ( ISBN 978-2-84734-424-0 )
• Michel Foucault. His thought, his person, Paris, Albin Michel, Humanities, 2008. ( ISBN 2226179143 )
• My imaginary museum, or the masterpieces of Italian painting, Paris, Albin Michel, Fine Books, 2010. ( ISBN 9782226181879 )

Publishing and collaborative work

• Prefaces
  • Machiavelli, The Prince (Il Principe), followed by excerpts from political works (Opere politiche) and a choice of familiar letters (Lettere familiari), translated from Italian by Gohory, Toussaint Guiraudette Barincou and Edmond, Paris Gallimard, "Folio," 1980. ( ISBN 2-07-037173-5 ), repr. 1988. , Repr. "Folio Classique," 2007. ( ISBN 978-2-07-034483-3 )
  • Peter Brown, Genesis of Late Antiquity (The Making of Late Antiquity), translated from English by Aline Rousselle, Paris, Gallimard, "Bibliothque stories", 1983. ( ISBN 2-07-070026-7 ) , repr. Paris, The Big Book of the Month, 1999. ( ISBN 2-7028-3795-6 )
  • Seneca, the tranquility of the soul (De animi Tranquillitatis) translated from Latin by Colette Lazam, Marseille, Shores, "Little Shores Library, 1988. ( ISBN 2-86930-151-0 ), repr. 1993. ( ISBN 2-86930-474-9 )
  • Elisabeth Couturier, Ernest Pignon-Ernest. Interview by Elisabeth Couturier, Paris, Herscher, 1990. ( ISBN 2-7335-0160-7 ): repr. 2003. ( ISBN 2-7335-0362-6 )
  • to prayer. The Hymns of Orpheus "(" Orphic Hymns "), translated and introduced by Pascal Charvet, Paris, ditions Nil," The Cabinet of Curiosities, "1995. ( ISBN 2-84111-026-5 )
  • Peter Green, From Alexander to Actium. Sharing the triumph of the Empire of Rome (Alexander to Actium. The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age) translated from English by Odile Demange, Paris, Robert Laffont, "Mouthpieces", 1997. ( ISBN 2-221 - 08471-3 )
  • Gerard Degeorge, Palmyra. Metropolis caravan, Paris, Imprimerie Nationale Editions, 2001. ( ISBN 2-7433-0408-1 )
  • Paul Zanker, Art for the senses. The represented world of Dionysus and Aphrodite in the Hellenistic art (Eine Kunst fr die Sinne. Zur Bilderwelt of Dionysos und der Aphrodite) translated from German by Cecile Michaud, Paris, G. Monfort, "Imago Mundi", 2001. ( ISBN 2-85226-495-1 )

  Translation

  • Christian Meier, The Politics and grace. Political anthropology of Greek beauty, (Politik und Anmut), translated from the German by Paul Veyne, Paris, Editions du Seuil, "The Works", 1987. (ISBN 2-02.009768-0)

  References

  1. Interview with Paul Veyne , Read , December 2005 / January 2006.
  2. Comment by Jean Roudaut, a university professor who wrote the preface of the Complete Works of Charles in the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade : "It will not be possible to venture to comment on a single poem of Rene Char without reference to what says in this book See also

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     External Links

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