11-497: Mehlman is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Jeffrey Mehlman , literary critic and historian of ideas Ken Mehlman , chair of the US Republican National Committee Peter Mehlman , television writer and producer See also [ edit ] Melman (disambiguation) [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
22-486: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Jeffrey Mehlman Jeffrey Mehlman (born 1944, in New York City ) is a literary critic and a historian of ideas. He has taught at Cornell University , Yale University, and Johns Hopkins University , and is currently University Professor and Professor of French Literature at Boston University . He has held visiting professorships at Harvard University ,
33-601: The Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies ). His main fields of specialization were French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1981. In 1997, Hoffmann was named the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor. In addition to his teaching and prolific writing, Hoffmann also participated as an expert in
44-596: The University of California at Berkeley , CUNY Graduate Center , Washington University in St. Louis , and MIT . Over a number of years, he has been writing an implicit history of speculative interpretation in France in the form of a series of readings of canonical literary works. In addition, Mehlman's numerous translations, beginning with his collection French Freud ( Yale French Studies 48, 1973), have played an important role in
55-411: The surname Mehlman . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mehlman&oldid=1148940449 " Category : Surnames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
66-560: The "ten best experimental essays written in English in the category of ‘literary criticism’ in the past half-century". Legacies: Of Anti-Semitism in France has been translated into French and Japanese and was the subject of a polemic involving the journals Tel Quel and La Quinzaine littéraire , spilling onto the first page of Le Monde , when it appeared in French in 1984. (Mehlman’s position in
77-743: The book has since been vindicated in a volume by Jacques Henric . George Steiner , reviewing Walter Benjamin for Children in the Times Literary Supplement , saluted in the book "a scholastic acuity and wit resembling that of Benjamin himself," hailing the "sparkle" of its "erudition and playful intelligence." Finally, Stanley Hoffman wrote in Foreign Affairs of Émigré New York that "previous attempts by literature professors to tackle culture have not always resulted in works as mind-stretching and entertaining as this." He has held both Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. In 1994, he
88-420: The naturalization of French thought in English. A Structural Study of Autobiography was described by Tom Conley as "the first major English-language study incorporating structuralism as method and goal." Revolution and Repetition was saluted by Paul de Man as "one of the very brilliant and entertaining books of the last years" (back cover) and hailed as a "tour de force" by Gregory Ulmer in his article on
99-654: The top of his class in 1948. He also obtained a doctorate at the Faculty of Law of Paris in 1953. In 1955, Hoffmann became an instructor in the Department of Government at Harvard. After some years, he received tenure . He was appointed C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1964. He founded Harvard's Center for European Studies in 1969 (later
110-469: Was appointed Officer of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the French government. Stanley Hoffman Stanley Hoffmann (27 November 1928 – 13 September 2015) was a French political scientist and the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University , specializing in French politics and society, European politics, U.S. foreign policy, and international relations. Hoffmann
121-597: Was born in Vienna in 1928 and moved to France with his family the following year. He was born to a distant American father and an Austrian mother. The Nazis classified Hoffmann and his mother as Jewish, forcing them to flee Paris in 1940. They fled to the village of Lamalou-les-Bains in the south of France, where they spent the war hiding from the Gestapo. A French citizen since 1947, Hoffmann spent his childhood between Paris and Nice before studying at Sciences Po , graduating at
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