The Committee
on the History
of Culture

Faculty

Philippe Desan
Office: 410 Wieboldt Hall
Phone: 773.834.8056
E-mail: p-desan@uchicago.edu

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University of Chicago
Humanities Division

Philippe Desan is Howard L. Willett Professor in the Department of Romance Languages & Literatures. He received his Ph.D from the University of California, Davis, in June 1984. His fields of specialization are Renaissance Literature and History of Ideas, Renaissance Philosophy, Sociology of Culture and Literature, Sociocriticism, Literature and Philosophy, Economic history, and 19th-century Literature. His many books include Naissance de la méthode: Machiavel, La Ramée, Bodin, Montaigne, Descartes (Paris, 1987), Les Commerces de Montaigne (Paris, 1992), Penser l'Histoire à la Renaissance (Paris, 1993), Montaigne, les Cannibales et les Conquistadores (Paris, 1994), Literary Objects: Flaubert (Chicago, 1996), Montaigne dans tous ses états (Paris, 2001), L'Imaginaire économique de la Renaissance (Paris, 2002), Dictionnaire de Montaigne (Paris, 2004). He is also the editor of some twelve volumes, including Literature and Social Practice (Chicago, 1989) and Entre deux siècles (Paris, 1999).

 

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