Jerrold Seigel is a prominent American historian. He is Professor Emeritus at
New York University. He taught for twenty-five years at
Princeton University.[1] His book Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (2012), won the 2014
Laura Shannon Prize for "the best book in
European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole."[2][3] He has been called "one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time"[4] and sits on the editorial board of the
Journal of the History of Ideas.
Bibliography
Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life (Princeton University Press, 1978)
Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930 (Viking, 1986)
The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture (University of California Press, 1995)
The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
Between Cultures: Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives (Penn Press, 2015)