Roger Chartier: 10 books

Reknowned historian Roger Chartier, one of the most brilliant and productive of the younger generation of French writers and scholars now at work refashioning the Annales tradition, attempts in this book to analyze the causes of the French revolution not simply by investigating its “cultural origins”...

In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two...

France has long attracted the attention of many of America's most accomplished historians. The field of French history has been vastly influential in American thought, both within the academy and beyond, regardless of France's standing among U.S. political and cultural elites. Even though other countries,...

Internet fait renaître le rêve d’universalité où l’entière humanité participe à l’échange des idées. Mais suscite aussi l’angoisse de voir disparaître la culture du livre. Quel est l’avenir du livre ? Que nous apprend son passé ? Roger Chartier nous rappelle que bien des révolutions,...

Neste livro, Marisa Lajolo e Regina Zilberman trazem à tona e discutem novas perspectivas assumidas pela literatura infantojuvenil brasileira contemporânea. Oferecem ao leitor um instigante percurso por livros impressos e digitais dos últimos 30 anos, discutindo rumos e práticas destas importantes...

How should we read a text that does not exist, or present a play the manuscript of which is lost and the identity of whose author cannot be established for certain? Such is the enigma posed by Cardenio – a play performed in England for the first time in 1612 or 1613 and attributed forty years...

In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press,...

Desde lados opuestos de una misma red, Chartier y Scolari se interrogan para tejer una costura conjunta entre sus saberes complementarios. Dibujan un discurso en la frontera, en un mundo caótico aturdido por el tsunami mediático, en plena crisis de fragmentación textual… quizás disiparán al...

Desde los años setenta y las obras de Paul Veyne, Hayde White y Michel de Certeau, los historiadores han discutido dos cuestiones esenciales: por un lado, la tensión entre la forma retórica y narrativa de la historia, compartida con la ficción, y su estatuto de conocimiento comprobado; por el...

Dieser Stoff kickte – auch wenn er aus sperrigem Vokabular zusammengebraut war. In den Sechzigerjahren stieg die Zahl der Abhängigen rasend schnell. Erst zirkulierte der Stoff in kleinen autonomen Gruppen, später wurde er in großen Mengen vornehmlich an den Universitäten feilgeboten. Extravenös...