Jean-Noël Jeanneney
Jean-Noël Jeanneney (born April 2, 1942 in Grenoble , France ) is a French historian, politician and culture functional . From 2002 to 2007 he was director of the French National Library in Paris .
family
His father Jean-Marcel Jeanneney and his grandfather Jules Jeanneney were important figures in political life in France.
Training, work
Jeanneney attended school in Grenoble, studied at the École normal supérieure in Paris, graduated in history.
The humanities doctorate in 1975 at the University of Paris X Nanterre was followed by a professorship at the Institut d'études politiques de Paris (1977). He became President of Radio France and Radio France Internationale (1982–1986), then President of the Mission du bicentenaire de la Révolution française (Bicentennial Celebration for the French Revolution .) (1988–1989). He was then State Secretary for Foreign Trade (1991–1992) and State Secretary for Communications (1992–1993). From 2002 he was President of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) and retired in 2007.
On the occasion of an exhibition he initiated in the BnF in 2006 on the “ Enlightenment - A Legacy for Tomorrow”, Jeanneney expressed his views on the importance of this era for today. Fundamentalist attackers against the Enlightenment, driven by obscurantism and fanaticism , would give the West a life and death struggle. In his opinion, there is a risk that superstition and prejudice will merge into a new barbarism that has so far been considered overcome.
Therefore, says Jeanneney, the anti-clerical legacy of the Enlightenment - Voltaire called it Écrasez l'infâme , "Shatter the wicked" - must be adapted to the present so that we can confront the new Islamism . The West should look for new life force in the mind of the Enlightenment. In the three generations before the French Revolution, it replaced the moral and political convictions that had been valid up to that point with new ones.
Jeanneney also criticized Google's digitization project ( Google Book Search ) and rejects its commercial exploitation. Instead, in 2006 he proposed a “digital European library” that is supported by the respective member states and is not subject to any economic constraints. A corresponding project began in 2007 with significant French participation and went online in 2008 under the name Europeana .
Fonts (selection)
- François de Wendel en république, l'argent et le pouvoir, 1914–1940. Thèses: Lettres (= Diss. Phil.), 1975, new editions
- Charles Rist: Une Saison gatée. Journal de la guerre et de l ' occupation . (A bad time. Diary of the war and the occupation) Ed. And note Jean Noêl Jeanneney. Fayard, Paris 1983, ISBN 2-213-01264-4 (French)
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Quand Google défie l'Europe. Plaidoyer pour un sursaut . Mille et Une Nuits, Paris 2005, ISBN 2-84205-912-3
- Google's challenge. For a European library . Translated by Sonja Finck , Nathalie Mälzer-Semlinger . Foreword by the author to the German edition; Afterword by Klaus-Dieter Lehmann , Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation . Wagenbach, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-8031-2534-0
- Entry in the OPAC of the Goettingen SUB on this work, short text: Summary and meaning for the public library system
- The passé dans le prétoire: L'historien, le juge et le journaliste. Seuil, Paris 1998 (On the trials of French war criminals, see Maurice Papon )
Web links
- Works by and about Jean-Noël Jeanneney at Open Library
- Deutschlandradio Kultur: Warning of a North American hegemony, March 15, 2006 (via the Google book)
notes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jeanneney, Jean-Noël |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French historian and politician, director of the French national library |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Grenoble |