Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Pierre Emmanuel Vidal- Naquet ( born July 23, 1930 in Paris, † July 29, 2006 in Nice ) was a French historian and political social historian. He taught most recently at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and with Jean -Pierre Vernant and Marcel Detienne founder of the so-called École de Paris of historical anthropology.

After a study of the historical sciences to Vidal- Naquet, specializing in Greek antiquity and contemporary history. One of his research subjects were the dialogues Timaeus and Critias Atlantis of Plato. He studied, among others, the relation between the attitude of religion and education towards Judaism and the respective dependent interpretation of Plato's Atlantis. He himself considered Plato's Atlantis for a allegorically to understand the invention.

In public, Vidal- Naquet was mainly through his political involvement attention: He worked on the French crimes during the Algerian War 1954-1962 and turned against Holocaust denial in parts of French society. His own parents had been deported Jews in 1944 and murdered.

Vidal- Naquet died in the night from 28th to 29th July 2006 at the age of 76 years from the effects of a brain hemorrhage.

Writings (selection )

• Society and economy in ancient Greece. Munich 1984 ISBN 3-406-09457-0 (together with Michel Austin )
• The black hunter. Modes of thought and forms of society in Ancient Greece. Lang, Frankfurt 1989 ISBN 3-593-33965- X
• The butcher of memory. Essays on revisionism. Vienna 2002 ISBN 3-85114-661-1 engl. A " Paper Eichmann ". Anatomy of a Lie. 1980 Full text ( in French online)