Alain Corbin

Work

Professor at the university Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne, it worked on the social history and the history of the representations. One says of him that he is “the historian of sensitive”, so much he marked his discipline by his innovative approach on the historicity of the directions and the sensitivities.

One owes him several works, of which Le Monde found of Louis-François Pinagot, on the traces of an unknown, 1798-1876 (1998), biography of a randomly selected unknown sabot-maker in the files of the Orne. This work falls under the concept of the Microhistoire.

In addition, he worked on the male desire of Prostitution ( Girls of wedding , 1978), the Odorat and the imaginary social one ( Miasma and the Jonquil , 1982), the man and his report/ratio with the Rivage ( the Territory of the vacuum , 1990), the sound landscape in the French campaigns of the 19th century ( Bells of the ground , 1994) and the creation of the Vacances ( the Advent of the leisures , 1996). He also published a book of discussions with Gilles Heuré ( Historien of sensitive the , 2000). In 2005, its students paid homage in a collective book to him which gives an account of its route historiographic: Demartini asEmmanuelle and Dominique Kalifa (to dir.), Imaginary and sensitivities to the 19th century: studies for Alain Corbin , Paris, Créaphis, 2006.

Publications

Archaism and modernity in the Limousin at the 19th century (1845-1880) , new edition, university Presses of Limoges, Limoges, 1999 (1st ED. 1975), 2 vol.
Girls of wedding. Sexual misery and prostitution (19th century) , Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 118, Paris, 1982 (1st ED. 1978), 342 p.
Miasma and the Jonquil. Sense of smell and the imaginary social one, XVIII E-19th centuries , Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 165, Paris, 1986 (1st ED. 1982), 342 p.
the Village of the “cannibals” , Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 333, Paris, 1990 (1st ED. 1986), 204 p.
the Territory of the vacuum. Occident and the desire of the shore, 1750-1840 , Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 218, Paris, 1990 (1st ED. 1990), 407 p.
Time, the Desire and Horror. Tests over the 19th century , Flammarion, coll “Fields”, Paris, 1998 (1st ED. 1991), 250 p.
Bells of the ground. Sound landscape and culture sensitive in the campaigns to the 19th century , Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 453, Paris, 2000 (1st ED. 1994), 359 p.
the Advent of the leisures (1850-1960) , with the collaboration of Julia Csergo, Jean-Claude Farcy, Roy To carry, Andre Rauch, Jean-Claude Richez, Leon Strauss, Anne-Marie Thiesse, Gabriella Turnaturi and Georges Vigarello, Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 480, Paris, 2001 (1st ED. 1995), 466 p.
Le Monde found of Louis-François Pinagot. On the traces of an unknown (1798-1876) , Flammarion, coll “Fields” nº 504, Paris, 2002 (1st ED. 1998), 336 p.
History of the body (to dir. with Jean-Jacques Courtine and Georges Vigarello), Editions of the Threshold, coll “historical Universe”, Paris, 2005,3 vol., 2005-2006
History of Christianity. For better including/understanding our time (direction), Editions of the Threshold, coll “historical Universe”, Paris, 2007,468 p.

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