Pierre Vidal-Naquet

Eski Yunan'da Mit ve Tragedya

Le Monde d'Homère

"Un Eichmann de papier" et autres essais sur le révisionnisme

assassins de la mémoire

Jean-Pierre Vernant

Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece

The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology. Taking its title from this mythological figure, this book approaches the Greek world by charting the elaborate system of contradictions which pervaded Greek society and culture - wild yet cultivated, real yet imaginary.

Forms of Thought and Forms of Society in the Greek World

The Black Hunter

No one can fail to admire the brilliance of the connections Vidal-Naquet suggests... Audacity has been characteristic of Vidal-Naquet's career from the start; it marked his activities as a historian engag in the political struggle; it is visible at work in every page of this book. -- Bernard Knox, from the Foreword The black hunter travels through the mountains and forests of Greek mythology, living on the frontier of the city-state, of adulthood, of class, of ethics, of sexuality. Taking its title from this figure, The Black Hunter approaches the Greek world from its margins and charts the elaborate system of oppositions that pervaded Greek culture and society: cultivated and wild, citizen and foreigner, real and imaginary, god and man. Organizing his discussions around four principle themes -- space and time; youth and warriors; women, slaves, and artisans; and the city of vision and of reality -- Pierre Vidal-Naquet focuses on the congruence of the textual and the actual, on the patterns that link literary, philosophical, and historical works with such social activities as war, slavery, education, and commemoration. The Black Hunter probes the interplay of world view, language, and social practice to bring into dialogue that which does not naturally communicate according to the usual criteria of historical judgement. A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis and its usefulness in illuminating well-known texts and providing fresh insights... What strikes the reader of this book is its daring, innovative interpretations. This is not a book that merely collects new information or synthesizes old views. It bursts into the heart of important themes and floods them withbright light. -- Modern Greek Studies Yearbook One of the liveliest intellects in the field... There is a wealth of learning in this book; specialists... will wish to consult individual articles while the general reader will not only learn but enjoy its contents and tenor. -- Classical World Excellent... Vidal-Naquet's book is a gem. It will stimulate further thoughts, discussions and writings on the Greek politeia and politikon. It should be read by all those who are involved in classical and comparative studies. It puts into circulation a structuralist reading which is provocative and simultaneously rings true. -- V. Y. Mudimbe, Journal of Ritual Studies

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Agōnas mou, ē istoria

Structure et signification d'un mythe platonicien

Athènes et l'Atlantide

P. Vidal-Naquet présente et critique les Atlantides antiques, le retour des Atlantes depuis la Renaissance et les grandes découvertes, l'Atlantide au siècle des Lumières. Il aborde le grand tournant du 19e siècle où l'Atlantide devient l'objet de romans, de délires nationalistes, pour finalement questionner les rêves sur l'Atlantide, de Jules Verne aux fouilles crétoises et de Troie.

L' Atlantide

Ce livre commence aux environs de 355 av. J.-C., lorsque Platon rédige le Timée et le Critias. Assurément Platon a puisé dans la culture de son temps, d'Homère à Hérodote et Thucydide, mais le mythe du continent perdu, inséparable d'une Athènes également imaginaire, est son œuvre propre. Reste que le mythe a connu d'incroyables développements, dans l'Antiquité d'abord, et a littéralement explosé à la Renaissance, singulièrement après la découverte de l'Amérique, rapidement identifiée par certains au continent imaginé par Platon. D'autres, peu nombreux, résistèrent, dont le plus remarquable est Montaigne. Les nationalistes s'emparèrent du sujet, de l'Espagne à la Suède et de l'Italie à l'Allemagne, singulièrement à l'époque hitlérienne. Les savants cherchèrent à expliquer par le continent perdu tantôt l'histoire de la planète, tantôt la préhistoire minoenne de la civilisation grecque. Les personnages de Jules Verne la visitèrent ou la reconstruisirent. Dans le " ghetto modèle " de Theresienstadt, un poète et un musicien identifièrent avec l'empereur de l'Atlantide le despote qui les incarcérait avant de les tuer. Il était temps que cette longue histoire fût écrite en français.

L'Affaire Audin, 1957-1978

A collection of articles, most of them published previously. Pp. 143-191 contain the endnotes to the articles. Contents:

Essays on the Denial of the Holocaust

Assassins of Memory

Jacques Bertin

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Atlas över mänsklighetens historia

Atlantis remains a perrenial fascination, wild theories as to its whereabouts abound and it sits only just behind the Grail, the Templars and so on in the volume of pseudoarchaeology it has inspired.

A Short History of Plato's Myth

The Atlantis Story

Limor Yagil

Examines the development of the revisionist movement in France in the postwar period. Dwells on the personalities and the ideas of Maurice Bardèche, Paul Rassinier, and Robert Faurisson; mentions numerous other, more contemporary, Holocaust deniers and trivializers, such as Henri Roques and Pierre Guillaume. In the last decade, denial and trivialization of the Holocaust has gradually become an accepted idea, deeply rooted in the national culture. Although the radical right adopted Holocaust denial as part of its ideology, this phenomenon is in no way limited to the right-wing: many revisionists belong now to the radical left, Catholic integrist, and some other camps. Most of the exponents of Holocaust denial in France are apolitical intellectuals, and the phenomenon is much more cultural than political, albeit no less dangerous. Pp. 1-15 contain a translation of the lecture "Who Are the Assassins of Memory?", delivered by Pierre Vidal-Naquet in Jerusalem in 1992.

Analysis of a Unique Phenomenon

Holocaust Denial in France

Written by one of the leading ancient historians in the world today, this book shows how politics in the ancient world has been interpreted and re-interpreted through the ages.

Pierre Vidal-Naquet

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