Marc Fumaroli

Marc Fumaroli ( born June 10, 1932 in Marseille ) is a French philologist, literary critic, historian and essayist, who since 1995 has been a member of the Académie française.

Life

Fumaroli who spent his childhood and youth in Fes, received his primary education from his mother before he attended the Lycée in Fes, where he received his baccalaureate. After attending the Lycée Thiers in Marseille, he earned a degree in philosophy at the University of Aix -Marseille and the Sorbonne and graduated in 1958. He then made ​​between September 1958 and January 1961 his military service at a military school and in the 6th Artillery Regiment.

In September 1963, he received a three-year fellowship from the Fondation Thiers in 1965 research assistant at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Lille. After he completed his doctorate in philosophy at the University of Paris IV in June 1976, he became a lecturer and successor of the deceased in September 1975 professor of French literature of the 17th century, Raymond Picard. As such, he was from 1976 to 1986 editor of the magazine XVIIe siècle and at the same time 1978-2010 Member of the editorial board of the journal Commentaire, headed until 1983 by Raymond Aron and since then by Jean-Claude Casanova. In 1977 he was one of the founding members of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was its president 1984-1985, and as such, the organizer of the Third International Conference in Tours. In addition, he was 1984-1994 Director of the Research Centre for the French language and literature of the 17th and 18th century, the University IV and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS ).

In 1986, Fumaroli on the recommendation of the poet Yves Bonnefoy and the historian Jean Delumeau the offer of a professorship of Rhetoric and Society in Europe from the 16th century to the 17th century at the Collège de France, the most prestigious scientific institution in France. In addition to this teaching, he was president from 1993 to 1999, founded by Jacqueline de Romilly Association for the Protection of Literary Education (SEL). In October 2006 he succeeded Gabriel de Broglie as President of the Inter-ministerial Commission for Terminology. In addition, he was founder and director of the European Institute for the history of philosophy, in the École Normale Supérieure in Paris is located.

Honors and Awards

Fumaroli was on 2 March 1995 after the death of Eugène Ionesco member of the Académie française and sitting there since then on the sixth chair ( fauteuil 6). In addition, in 1998 the election as a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres, in which he took the place of Georges Duby.

He was both a visiting professor at All Souls College, University of Oxford in 1983 and at the Institute for Applied Studies at Princeton University. In addition, numerous honorary degrees he was awarded as 1994 by the University of Naples, 1999, the University of Bologna, the University of Genoa in 2004 and 2005, the Complutense University of Madrid.

He is also a member of many scientific academies, such as the British Academy, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, American Philosophical Society, and in 1997 the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. As followers of René Pomeau, he was named President of the French Society for literary history. Him the Balzan Prize was awarded in 2001.

Finally, he is commander of the Legion of Honour, of the Ordre national du Mérite, the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and the Grand Officer ( Grande Ufficiale ) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Publications

  • L' Âge de l' Eloquence: Rhétorique et « res literaria » de la Renaissance au thresh de l' époque classique, Droz, 1980; Reprint Albin Michel, 1994, ISBN 2-226-06951-8
  • Heros et Orateurs, Rhétorique et dramaturgy cornélienne, Droz, 1990
  • L' État culturel: une religion modern, Éditions de Fallois, 1991; Livre de Poche edition, 1999, ISBN 2-253-06081- X
  • La diplomacy de l' esprit de Montaigne à La Fontaine, Hermann, 1995; New edition 1998, ISBN 2-7056-6380-0
  • Rome et Paris - capitales européenne de la République des Lettres, 1999, ISBN 3-8258-3861-7
  • Histoire de la Rhétorique dans l'Europe Modern: 1450-1950, Presses Universitaires de France, 1999, ISBN 2-13-049526-5
  • L' École du silence. Le sentiment des images au XVIIème siècle, Paris, Flammarion, 1999, ISBN 978-2-07-042132-9
  • Quand l'Europe parlait français Éditions de Fallois, 2001, ISBN 2-87706-426-3
  • Chateaubriand: Grammar et Terreur, Éditions de Fallois, 2003, ISBN 2-87706-483-2
  • Maurice Quentin de La Tour et le siècle de Louis XV, Éditions du Quesne, 2005, ISBN 2-909989-23-2
  • Exercices de lecture: De Rabelais à Paul Valéry, Gallimard, " Bibliothèque des idées ", 2006, ISBN 2-07-072985-0
  • Peinture et aux Pouvoirs XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles: de Rome in Paris, Faton, 2007, ISBN 978-2-87844-094-2
  • Paris-New York et retour Voyage dans les arts et les images Journal 2007-2008, Fayard, 2009, ISBN 978-2-213-62483-9
  • Discours de réception de Jean Clair à l' Académie Française et de réponse Marc Fumaroli, Gallimard, 2009, ISBN 9782070127825
  • Le Big Bang et après? , Co-authors Alexandre Adler, Blandine Kriegel and Trinh Xuan Thuan, Albin Michel, 2010, ISBN 9782226207456
  • L' Homme de cour, essai sur l' œuvre préface - de Baltasar Gracian, Gallimard, " Folio Classique ", 2011, ISBN 978-2-07-042132-9

Background literature

  • Roxanne Roy: Marc Fumaroli: rayonnement d' une oeuvre, 2007
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