Background
Barzun, Jacques was born on November 30, 1907 in Créteil, France. Came to United States, 1920, naturalized, 1933. Son of Henri Martin and Anna-Rose Barzun.
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Reassesses the stature and contributions of the three, points out their similarities, and attempts to explain why they have come to be so revered.
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This original book approaches the modern form of an old superstition through an analysis of its function in French culture. A witty book that concludes that much nonsense has been written about race. Contents include a revised preface, the Nordic Myth, Race and the Fine Arts, Anthropological topics, Race and the Nationalistic Wars, and Race- The modern superstition.
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This classic introduction to the techniques of research and the art of expression is used widely in history courses, but is also appropriate for writing and research methods courses in other departments. Barzun and Graff thoroughly cover every aspect of research, from the selection of a topic through the gathering, analysis, writing, revision, and publication of findings presenting the process not as a set of rules but through actual cases that put the subtleties of research in a useful context. Part One covers the principles and methods of research; Part Two covers writing, speaking, and getting one's work published.
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Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and literature, the author traces the development of romanticism from classicism and the emergence of the modern ego.
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The lecturer traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
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With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes as an "intellectual debt" to William James--psychologist, philosopher, and, for Barzun, guide and mentor. Commenting on James's life, thought, and legacy, Barzun leaves us with a wise and civilized distillation of the great thinker's work.
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Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criticism, retrospective sociology and the effects of relativism on moral behavior.
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In this powerful, eloquent, and timely book, Jacques Barzun offers guidance for resolving the crisis in America's schools and colleges. Drawing on a lifetime of distinguished teaching, he issues a clear call to action for improving what goes on in America's classrooms. The result is an extraordinarily fresh, sensible, and practical program for better schools. "It is difficult to imagine a more pungent, perceptive or eloquent commentary on contemporary American education than this collection of 15 pieces by Jacques Barzun."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "Mr. Barzun's style is elegant, distinctive, philosophically consistent and much better-humored than that of many contemporary invective-hurlers."—David Alexander, New York Times Book Review
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Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New York Times bestseller and National Book Award Finalist From Dawn to Decadence, has always been known as a witty and graceful essayist, one who combines a depth of knowledge and a rare facility with words. Now Michael Murray has carefully selected eighty of Barzun's most inventive, accomplished, and insightful essays, and compiled them in one impressive volume. With subjects ranging from history to baseball to crime novels, A Jacques Barzun Reader is a feast for any reader.
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One of reading's pleasures is discovering a provocative author worthy of attention who has fallen off the cultural map. Such is the case with John Jay Chapman. Although a prolific writer, having published numerous magazine articles and books criticizing late nineteenth and early twentieth century political, social, and moral values, Chapman is little known today. Adding to the mystery of his obscurity, is the extensive and powerful connections he had. John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court was his grandfather, Chapman counted William James as a friend, and he considered Theodore Roosevelt, Judas. Chapman was a member of that segment of the northeastern intellectual elite alarmed at the cupidity, stupidity, and injustice the Gilded Age unleashed. Equally threatening to Chapman and his circle was the possibility of popular revolt ignited by the Age's toxic combination of laissez-faire capitalism and social darwinism. Chapman's disquiet prompted him to critique the moral, political, and social excesses of the day and the corruption which co-opted and silenced those who promoted radical reform. His silence could not be bought. Chapman along with Ida B. Wells was among the first writers to chronicle and criticize lynching. In his essay,Coatesville, Chapman dissected the cultural pathology that permitted "upstanding" citizens to treat torture and lynching as acts delivering swift justice. So why is John Jay Chapman lost from the pantheon of American letters? My hypothesis -- academics and the public have difficulty categorizing him. Chapman wrote as a citizen about the issues he found interesting not as an expert specializing in a particular field. He exemplified that much praised individual -- the Renaissance man. Americans, while ardently proclaiming the virtues of Da Vinci, are generally made uneasy by the Renaissance man's protean interests and accomplishments.
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(Hector Berlioz And The Romantic Century, S/2 by Jacques B...)
Hector Berlioz And The Romantic Century, S/2 by Jacques Barzun. Boston: Little, Brown And Company, 1950. First Edition. 1084 pages. Hardcover. Slipcase, Gilt-Stamping, Scattered B&W Illustrations, Text In French. Moderate wear to binding, covers, pages
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Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the arts over the past 150 years, suggesting that the present is a period of cultural liquidation, nothing less than the ending of the modern age that began with the Renaissance.
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The old plan and purpose of teaching the young what they truly need to know survives only in the private sector. —Jacques Barzun With his customary wit and grace, Dr. Barzun contrasts the ritual of education with the lost art of teaching. Twenty-one chapters deal with three major issues: the practice of teaching, the subject matter to be taught, and the institutional and cultural aspects of teaching. Jacques Barzun is a renowned scholar, teacher, and author who lectures widely since his retirement in 1993.
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(A collection of eleven articles, written over a period of...)
A collection of eleven articles, written over a period of almost forty years and originally published in such journals as American Scholar, Atlantic Monthly, and Partisan Review.
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One of the most controversial books to come out of the academy in the last fifteen years is Martin Bernal's Black Athena. It has been a true cause celebre. Afrocentrists have both praised the book and claimed that Bernal stole from the work of black scholars to create his study of the Afroasiastic roots of classical civilization. Classicists feel passionately about what they perceive as an attack from an outsider on the origins not only of ancient Greece but of their own discipline. It seems that everyone has something to say about the book; the question is how many really understand it. In Heresy in the University, Jacques Berlinerblau provides an exegesis of the contents of Black Athena, making it accessible to a wider audience. As he clarifies and restates Bernal's opus, Berlinerblau identifies Bernal's flaws in reasoning and gaps in evidence. He cuts to the heart of Bernal's prose, singling out the key points of Bernal's argument, explaining and arranging them in a cogent manner. Berlinerblau addresses the critics' really important objections, including his own, and links each of them to the appropriate substantive argument in Black Athena. He goes beyond simple summary and exposition to present the underlying --stated and unstated--agendas of Bernal and his critics. Ultimately, he exposes both sides and asks what the flawed reasoning from all concerned reveals about the stakes in this key academic dispute and what that, in turn, says about the modern academy. Jacques Berlinerblau is an assistant professor and director of Judaic studies at Hofstra University.
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(A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques B...)
A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques Barzun has set down his view of the best ways to improve one's style. His discussions of diction, syntax, tone, meaning, composition, and revision guide the reader through the technique of making the written word clear and agreeable to read. Exercises, model passages both literary and casual, and hundreds of amusing examples of usage gone wro...
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Barzun, Jacques was born on November 30, 1907 in Créteil, France. Came to United States, 1920, naturalized, 1933. Son of Henri Martin and Anna-Rose Barzun.
Student, Lycée Janson de Sailly, Paris. AB, Columbia University, 1927. Master of Arts, Columbia University, 1928.
Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1932.
Assistant Professor 1938, Association Professor 1942, Professor since 1945, Dean of Graduate Faculties 1955-1958, Dean of Faculties and Provost 1958-1967, Seth Low Professor 1960, University Professor 1967-1975. Professor Emeritus since 1975. Literary Adviser, Scribner’s since 1975.
President 1972-1975, 1977-1978), American Historical Association, Royal Society of Arts, American Arbitration Association. Former Director Council for Basic Education, New York Society Library, Open Court. Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge 1961.
Teacher in America 1945, Berlioz and the Romantic Century 1950, God’s Country and Mine 1954, The Energies of Art 1956, Music in American Life 1956, The Modem Researcher 1957 (with H. Graff), The House of Intellect 1959, Classic, Romantic and Modem 1961, Science, the Glorious Entertainment 1964, The American University 1968, A Catalogue of Crime (with W. Taylor) 1971, On Writing, Editing and Publishing 1971, The Use and Abuse of Art 1974, Clio and the Doctors 1974, Simple and Direct 1975, Critical Questions 1982, A Stroll with William James 1983, A Word or Two Before You Go 1986, The Culture We Deserve 1989, An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English.
( Throughout his career Jacques Barzun, author of the New...)
( The lecturer traces the historical development of attit...)
(Traces the historical development of attitudes toward the...)
(This classic introduction to the techniques of research a...)
(A collection of eleven articles, written over a period of...)
(Drawing from the works of influential figures in art and ...)
( With this book, Jacques Barzun pays what he describes a...)
(This third edition again makes available to today's reade...)
(Reassesses the stature and contributions of the three, po...)
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
(Twelve essays exploring aspects of literacy and art criti...)
( In this powerful, eloquent, and timely book, Jacques Ba...)
(A fter a lifetime of writing and editing prose, Jacques B...)
(This original book approaches the modern form of an old s...)
(One of the most controversial books to come out of the ac...)
(One of reading's pleasures is discovering a provocative a...)
( The old plan and purpose of teaching the young what the...)
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(A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works by Bar...)
(A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works by Bar...)
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Author: The French Race, 1932, Teacher in America, 1945, Berlioz and the Romantic Century, 1950, 3d edition, 1969, Pleasures of Music, 1951, second edition, 1977, God's Country and Mine, 1954, Music in American Life, 1956, Darwin, Marx, Wagner, 1941, The Energies of Art, 1956, Of Human Freedom, 2d edition, 1964, Race: A Study in Superstition, 1937, The Modern Researcher, 1957, 6th edition, 2003, The House of Intellect, 2d edition, 1975, Classic, Romantic and Modern, 1961, Science: The Glorious Entertainment, 1964, The American University, 1968, second edition, 1995, A Catalogue of Crime, 1971, second edition, 1986, On Writing, Editing and Publishing, 1971, The Use and Abuse of Art, 1974, Clio and the Doctors, 1974, Simple and Direct, 1975, second edition, 1993, Critical Questions, 1982, A Stroll With William James, 1983, A Word or Two Before You Go, 1986, The Culture We Deserve, 1989, Begin Here: On Teaching and Learning, 1990, An Essay on French Verse, 1991, From Dawn to Decadence: 1500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 2000, A Jacques Barzun Reader, 2001, What Is a School?, 2002. Member editorial board The American Scholar, 1946-1976, Encyclopedia Brit, since 1979. Editor: Selected Letters of Lord Byron, 1953, Nouvelles Lettres de Berlioz, 1954, The Selected Writings of John Jay Chapman, 1957, Follett's Modern American Usage, 1966.
Trustee New York Society Library., 1968-1997. Advisory council University Buckingham. Fellow Royal Society Arts, Royal Society Literature.
Member Society of America Historians, Massachusetts History Society (correspondent), American Academy of Arts and Letters (president 1972-1975, 77-78), American Philosophical Society, American Academy for Liberal Education (honorary president), Academy Delphinale (Grenoble), Century Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Mariana Lowell, August 1936 (deceased 1979). Children: James Lowell, Roger Martin, Isabel. Married Marguerite Davenport, June 1980.