Paul Veyne
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Paul Veyne (French:
Biography
Veyne was born in
The family having moved to Lille, he assiduously studied the Roman collections of the archaeological museum there, where he received guidance from the curator. He maintains that his interest in the Greeks and Romans stems not from any humanist impulse or any specific admiration, but just from his chance discovery as a child.
Having come to Paris for his
On the other hand, the bad treatment of the Algerians at the hands of the colonials revolted him in equal measure to the atrocities of the Nazis. Once again, however, his shock was neither social nor political, but moral.
Paul Veyne studied at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris 1951–55. He was a member of the École française de Rome 1955–1957, whereupon he settled in Aix-en-Provence as a professor at the University of Provence. It was in his years in Aix that he published his provocative Comment on écrit l'histoire, an essay on the epistemology of history.[1] At a time when the dominant trend in French historiography favored quantitative methods, Veyne's essay unabashedly declared history to be a "true tale". Through his essay he became an early representative of the interest in the narrative aspects of scientific history.
His monograph on
In 1975 Veyne entered the Collège de France thanks to the support of Raymond Aron, who had been abandoned by his former heir apparent Pierre Bourdieu.[4] However, Veyne, by failing to cite the name of Aron in his inaugural lecture, aroused his displeasure, and according to Veyne he was persecuted by Aron ever since this perceived sign of his ingratitude.[5] Veyne remained there from 1975 to 1999 as holder of the chair of Roman history.[6]
In 1978 Veyne's epistemological essay was reissued in tandem with a new essay on
Paul Veyne lived in Bédoin, in the Vaucluse.[11] He died on 29 September 2022, at the age of 92.[12]
Honours
- 1990: Knight of the Legion of Honour
- 1995: National Order of Merit (France)
- 2016: Officer of the Legion of Honour
- 2016: Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Awards
- 1972: Prize of the Académie française
- 2006: ChateaubriandAwards
- 2007: French SenateHistory Book Award
- 2007: Grand prix Gobert
- 2009: Prix Roger Caillois
- 2014: Prix Femina essai
- 2017: Prize of Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 2021: French SenateMedal
Main publications
In French
- Comment on écrit l'histoire : essai d'épistémologie, Paris Le Seuil, 1970.[13]
- Le pain et le cirque, Paris, Le Seuil, 1976.
- L'inventaire des différences, Paris, Le Seuil, 1976.
- Les Grecs ont-ils cru à leurs mythes ?, Paris, Le Seuil, 1983.
- L'élégie érotique romaine, Paris, Le Seuil, 1983.
- Histoire de la vie privée, vol. I, Paris, Le Seuil, 1987.
- René Char en ses poèmes, Paris, Gallimard, 1990.
- La société romaine, Paris, Le Seuil, 1991.
- Sénèque, Entretiens, Lettres à Lucilius, revised translation, introduction and notes, Paris, Laffont, 1993.
- Le quotidien et l'intéressant, conversations with Catherine Darbo-Peschanski, Paris, Hachette, 1995.
- Les mystères du gynécée, in collaboration with F. Frontisi-Ducroux and F. Lissarrague, Paris, Gallimard, 1998.
- Sexe et pouvoir à Rome, Paris, Tallandier, 2005.
- L'empire gréco-romain, Paris, Le Seuil, 2005.
- Foucault, sa pensée, sa personne, Paris, Albin Michel, 2008.
- Mon musée imaginaire, ou les chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture italienne, Paris, Albin Michel, Beaux livres, 2010.
- Et dans l'éternité je ne m'ennuierai pas, Paris, Albin Michel, 2014.
- Palmyre. L'irremplaçable trésor, Paris, Albin Michel, 2015
- La Villa des Mystères à Pompéi, Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Art et Artistes », 2016.
- Une insolite curiosité, Paris, Robert Laffont, coll. « Bouquins », 2020.
In English
- Writing History: Essay on Epistemology, Oxford, The Wesleyan Edition, 1984
- History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, Harvard, Harvard University Press, 1987
- Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths?: An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1988
- Bread and Circuses: Historical Sociology and Political Pluralism, London, Penguin Books, 1992
- The Roman Empire, Harvard, The Belknap Press, 1997
- Foucault: His Thought, His Character, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2003
- When Our World Became Christian: 312 - 394, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2010
- Palmyra: An Irreplaceable Treasure, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2017
References
- ^ Paul Veyne, Comment on écrit l'histoire : essai d'épistémologie, Paris: Le Seuil 1970.
- ^ Paul Veyne, Le pain et le cirque, Paris: Le Seuil 1976.
- ^ "1976: Paul Veyne met au jour la logique des bienfaits". 2016.
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- ^ "Paul Veyne". 1 December 2005.
- ^ "Paul Veyne".
- ^ Paul Veyne, Comment on écrit l'histoire, suivi par "Foucault révolutionne l'histoire"; Paris: Le Seuil 1978.
- David Halperin, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality, New York: Routledge, 1990, page 64.
- ^ Foucault, Michel. The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at the College de France (1978-1979). Trans. Graham Burchell. Ed. Michael Senellart. 1st Picador Paperback Edition. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 317-8.
- ^ Paul Veyne, Foucault. Sa pensée, sa personne; Paris: Albin Michel, 2008.
- ^ "Paul Veyne : "Quelle a été ma vie?"". 26 October 2014.
- ^ "L'historien Paul Veyne, spécialiste de l'Antiquité grecque et romaine, est mort". lemonde.fr.
- JSTOR 3320252.
External links
- Paul Veyne on the site of the Collège de France