Sebastian de Grazia

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Sebastian de Grazia (born August 11, 1917 in Chicago , Illinois , † December 31, 2000 in Princeton , New Jersey ) was an American political scientist , philosopher , university professor and biographer . His brother was the political scientist Alfred de Grazia .

Life

Sebastian de Grazia grew up in Chicago and studied and received his PhD in political science from the University of Chicago . During the Second World War he served as an analyst in the Office of Strategic Services . From 1962 to 1988 he taught as a professor of political philosophy at Rutgers University .

With his book Of Time, Work and Leisure , published in 1964 , de Grazia drew attention to the lack of leisure and leisure in modern industrial societies. He also caused a stir after his retirement when he published a biography of Niccolò Machiavelli in 1989 with Machiavelli in Hell . It was praised for its "skillful structure, beautiful writing, and the kind of originality that can only be achieved through accuracy and thoroughness". A year later he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Best Biography or Autobiography .

On Sunday, December 31, 2000, de Grazia died of a heart attack at the age of 83 during an evening walk. He was married three times in his life, with Miriam Carlson, Anna-Maria d'Annunzio and most recently with Lucia Heffelfinger. He and his first two wives had five children, four sons and a daughter. His remaining wife died a year later.

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  • The Political Community (1948)
  • Errors of Psychotherapy (1952)
  • Of Time, Work and Leisure (1962)
  • Machiavelli in Hell , Vintage 1989, ISBN 978-0679743422
  • A Country With No Name: Tales from the Constitution , Vintage 1997, ISBN 978-0679744221

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  1. ↑ a b Sebastian de Grazia, 83; Wrote of Machiavelli , nytimes.com
  2. ↑ The Lady on the Tiger , spiegel.de
  3. ↑ Harvey Mansfield : Machiavelli in Hell ( Memento of the original from June 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , American Political Science Review, September 1, 1993 (via highbeam.com) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.highbeam.com
  4. ↑ Sebastian de Grazia , grazian-archive.com
  5. ↑ Paid Notice: Deaths DE GRAZIA, LUCIA HEFFELFINGER , nytimes.com
personal data
SURNAME Grazia, Sebastian de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher, university professor, and biographer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2000
Place of death Princeton , New Jersey, United States