Jacques Le Rider

Jacques Le Rider (born February 20, 1954 in Athens ) is a French German studies scholar and cultural scientist .

Life

Jacques Le Rider is a son of the ancient scholar, numismatist and librarian Georges Le Rider . He studied in Paris at the École normal supérieure (1973–1977), at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris , also called Sciences Po Paris, (Dipl. Polit. 1977) and at the Sorbonne-Paris IV (Mag. 1975, agrégation 1976, Dr. Phil. 1982, Habil. 1989). He was a research assistant at the Sorbonne Paris IV (1977-1981), lecturer at the University of Paris XII -Val-de-Marne (1981-1990), professor at the University of Paris VIII -Vincennes-Saint Denis (1990-1999). Since September 1999 he has been Directeur d'études at the École pratique des hautes études (EPHE) in Paris (Department of History and Philology, Chair under the title: L'Europe et le monde germanique, époque moderne et contemporaine ; German: “Europe and the German-speaking cultural area from the Enlightenment to the present ”). Since April 2015 he has been a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class abroad). 1983–1986 he was director of the Franco-German cultural institute in Tübingen ; visiting professor at the University of Washington in Seattle in the first half of 1988 ; since 1999 member of the Institut universitaire de France ; in the winter semester 1993/94 visiting professor at the University of Graz ; 1994–1996 Counselor for Cultural and Scientific Cooperation in Vienna and Director of the French Cultural Institute in Vienna; in the summer semester 2000 visiting professor at the European Institute of the University of Geneva ; 2000–2001 visiting scholar at the Media and Cultural Communication Research College of the University of Cologne in the 2004 summer semester visiting professor at the University of Mannheim ; in March 2007 visiting professor at the University of São Paulo ; in the first half of 2008 visiting scholar at the University of Cologne; in the first quarter of 2009 visiting scholar at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of the Free University of Berlin ; visiting scholar at the University of Münster in the first half of 2010 ; in the winter semester 2012/13 Stadt-Wien-Senior-Fellow of the International Research Center for Cultural Studies (IFK) Vienna; May 4 - June 5, 2015 visiting professor at the University of Mannheim.

Prizes and awards

• 1983 Strasbourg Prize from the Alfred Toepfer Foundation FVS
• 1986 Hölderlin badge from the university town of Tübingen
• 1990 Opponent Prize of the Académie des sciences morales et politiques Paris
• 2000 Humboldt Research Prize from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 2006 Gabriel Monod Prize from the Académie des sciences morales et politiques
• 2009 Guizot Prize from the Académie française for L'Allemagne au temps du réalisme. De l'espoir au désenchantement (1848-1890) (Albin Michel)
• 2010 Henri Hertz Prize from the Rectorate of Paris
• 2010 Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 2011 Prof. hc from the University of Tibiscus (Timișoara) and Dr. hc of the University of Aurel Vlaicu (Arad)

Fonts

Books in German translation

• The Otto Weininger case. Roots of anti-feminism and anti-Semitism , Vienna, Löcker Verlag, 1985.
• The end of the illusion. To the criticism of modernity. Viennese Modernism and the Crises of Identity , Vienna, Österreichischer Bundesverlag, 1990.
• Central Europe. On the trail of a concept , Vienna, Deuticke, 1994.
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Historicism and Modernism in the Literature of the Turn of the Century , Vienna, Böhlau, 1997.
• Nietzsche in France , Munich-Paderborn, Wilhelm Fink, 1997 (afterword by Ernst Behler).
• The colors and the words. History of color from Lessing to Wittgenstein , Vienna, Böhlau, 2000.
• Not a day without writing. Diary literature of Viennese Modernism , Vienna, Passagen Verlag, 2002.
• Freud - from the Acropolis to Sinai. The return to antiquity in Viennese modernism , Vienna, Passagen Verlag, 2004.
• Arthur Schnitzler or Die Wiener Belle Epoque , Vienna, Passagen Verlag, 2013.
• Vienna as "The New Ghetto"? Arthur Schnitzler and Theodor Herzl in Dialogue , Vienna, Picus, 2014 (Wiener Vorlesungen, vol. 171).

Edited volumes in German

• With Norbert readers: Otto Weininger. Work and Effect , Vienna, 1984.
• With Gérard Raulet: Farewell to (post) modernism? Tübingen, 1987.
• With Franz Knipping: France's cultural policy in Germany, 1945–1950 , Tübingen, 1987.
• With Andrei Corbea-Hoisie: Metropolis and Provinces in Old Austria (1880–1918) , Iasi-Vienna, 1996.
• With Thomas Angerer: “A spring that was not followed by a summer”? French-Austrian cultural transfers after 1945 , Vienna, 1999.
• With Gerhard Kofler, Johann Strutz: Cultural Neighborhood. On the business cycle of a term , Klagenfurt, 2002.
• With Moritz Csáky , Monika Sommer : Transnational Memories in Central Europe , Innsbruck, 2002.
• With Anne-Marie Corbin , Wolfgang Müller-Funk: The Will to Hope. Manès Sperber - An intellectual in a European context , Vienna, 2013.

Other major publications

• Malwida from Meysenbug. Une Européenne du XIXe siècle , Paris, Bartillat, 2005.
• L'Allemagne au temps du réalisme. De l'espoir au désenchantement (1848–1890) , Paris, Albin Michel, 2008.
• Fritz Mauthner. Skepticisme linguistique et modernité. Une biographie intellectuelle , Paris, Bartillat, 2012.
• Les juifs viennois à la Belle Époque (1867–1914) , Paris, Albin Michel, 2013, ISBN 2226242090
• La Censure à l'oeuvre. Freud, Kraus, Schnitzler , Paris, Hermann, 2015 ( ISBN 9782705690397 ).
• Karl Kraus. Phare et brûlot de la modernité viennoise , Paris, Le Seuil, 2018 ( ISBN 9782021141979 ).

literature

• Ernst Bruckmüller : Jacques Le Rider. In: Austrian Academy of Sciences. Almanach 2015, 165th volume, Vienna 2016, p. 189.

Web links

• Literature by and about Jacques Le Rider in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage J. Le Rider EPHE