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Nov 21, 2008 · First published in French in 1998, Alain Besançon’s Le malheur du siècle is a fine example of that increasingly rare and ever difficult to master literary genre, the essai or étude. In a little over a hundred pages, Besançon raises, explores, and finally suggests (without ever claiming to resolve definitively) answers to two interrelated ...
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Stéphane Courtois (French pronunciation: [stefan kuʁtwa]; born 25 November 1947) is a French historian and university professor, a director of research at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), professor at the Catholic Institute of Higher Studies (ICES) in La Roche-sur-Yon, and director of a collection specialized in the history of communist movements and communist states.
- Research on communism and communist genocides
Alain Besançon has 52 books on Goodreads with 1833 ratings. Alain Besançon’s most popular book is A Century of Horrors: Communism, Nazism, and the Unique...
Alain Besançon (born 25 April 1932) is a French historian. He specialises in intellectual history and Russian politics. From 1965 to 1992 he was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. He was elected to the Académie des sciences morales et politiques of the Institut de France in 1996.
Alain Besançon’s work begins with a comprehensive examination of the status of the image in Greek, Judaic, Islamic, and Christian thought. The author then addresses arguments regarding the moral authority of the image in European Christianity from the medieval through the early modern periods.
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Alain Besançon is Director of Studies at L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. A specialist in Russian politics and intellectual history, he is the author of The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm and The Falsification of the Good: Soloviev and Orwell.
