Jean-Pierre Vernant

Biography

Born in Provins (Seine-et-Marne), it forever known his/her father. His/her mother dies whereas it is only 8 years old.

He undertakes studies of philosophy and is received first with the aggregation, in this discipline, in 1937. Member with the Communist youths, it enters the Résistance during the Second world war: he joined the network Release-South, founded by Emmanuel d' Astier of Vigerie. Thereafter, it orders the French Forces of the interior of Haute-Garonne under the pseudonym of “colonel Berthier”. It is Compagnon of the Release. After the war, it remains within the French Communist party and leaves it in 1969. He is member of the committee of sponsorship of the French Coordination for the Decade of the culture of peace and non-violence. He supports, since his creation in 2001, the funds associative Non-Violence XXI. He gives up his university career to take again the press company which his/her father had founded with layered branches at the end of XIX°siècle

Influenced by Louis Gernet, it turns to the anthropology of ancient Greece when it enters to CNRS, in 1948. Ten years later, he becomes director of studies to EHESS. Specialist in the ancient Greece, it often expressed himself on what there is of commun run but also of different between the Greeks and the modern Occident, in particular with regard to the practice of the Démocratie. He was professor emeritus at the Collège de France.

October 23rd, 2006 Jean-Pierre Vernant wished to give his last conference to the Le Corbusier College of the popular city of Aubervilliers.

Jean-Pierre Vernant died on January 9th, 2007 in his residence of Sevres (Hauts-de-Seine). The college of Sevres is named Jean-Pierre Vernant on November 21st, 2007.

Distinctions

Decorations, Price

Gold medal of CNRS, 1984
Premio di Storia, San Marino, 1991
American Academy Award for Humanistic Studies, 1992
Commander of the Legion of honor
Companion of the Release
Military Cross
Large Officer in the National order of the Merit
Commander about the Honor of the Hellenic Republic
Officer of Arts and the Letters

Doctor honoris causa

University of Chicago
University of Bristol-board
University of Brno
University of Naples
University of Oxford
University of Crete (2002)
New Bulgarian University (2004)

Other distinctions

Associated member of the royal Academy of Belgium
Foreign honorary Member of the American Academy off Arts and Sciences
Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
Honory Member of the Society for the Promotion off Hellenic Studies
Member of the Academia Europaea

Works

Selected publications:

origins of the Greek thought , Paris, CNRS, collection “Myths and religions”, 1962.
Myth and thought among Greeks. Studies of historical psychology , Paris, François Maspero, 1965.
Direction: Problems of the war in old Greece , Paris it the Hague, Sheep, 1968.
With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Myth and tragedy in old Greece , Paris, François Maspero, 1972.
Myth and company in old Greece , Paris, François Maspero, 1974.
With Marcel Hold: tricks of the intelligence. The mongrel of the Greeks , Paris, Flammarion, 1974.
Greek Religion, ancient religions , Paris, François Maspero, 1976.
Religion, stories, reasons , Paris, François Maspero, 1979.
With Marcel Holds: kitchen of sacrifice in Greek country , Paris, Gallimard, 1979.
death in the eyes. Figures of the other in old Greece , Paris, Hatchet, 1985.
With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Myth and tragedy, II , Paris, the Discovery, 1986.
With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Work and slavery in old Greece , Brussels, Complex, 1988.
the individual, death, the love. Oneself and the other in old Greece , Paris, Gallimard, 1989.
Myth and religion in old Greece , Paris, the Threshold, 1990.
Figures, idols, masks , Paris, Julliard, 1990.
In joint management with Gherardo Gnoli: death, deaths in the old companies , Paris, House of the Social sciences, 1990.
With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: old Greece. Volume I: Myth with the reason , Paris, the Threshold, 1990; Volume II: space and time , Paris, the Threshold, 1991; Volume III: Rites of passage and transgression , Paris, the Threshold, 1992.
Direction of: the Greek man , Paris, the Threshold, 1993.
With Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Oedipus and his myths , Brussels, Complex, 1994.
Between myth and political , Paris, the Threshold, 1996.
In joint management with Stella Georgoudi: Greek myths with illustrated of antiquity in the baroque , Paris, Gallimard, 1996.
With Jean Bottéro and Clarisse Herrenschmidt: the old East and us , Paris, Albin Michel, 1996.
With Francoise Frontisi-Ducroux: In the eye of the mirror , Paris, Odile Jacob, 1997.
universe, gods, men. Greek accounts of the origins , Paris, the Threshold, 1999.
Ulysses and Persée , Paris, Bayard, collection “Speech of Greece with the children”, 2004.
the crossing of the borders , Paris, the Threshold, “the bookstore of XXIe century”, 2004.
PANDORA, the first woman , taken again of a conference given to the national library of France on June 6th, 2005. Editions Bayard (BNF)
Myth and thought among Greeks , Paris, the Discovery, 2007.

See too

External bonds

Biographies of the Companions of the Release
Discussion with the review Din, 1999
'' Vidéos: '' Jean-Pierre Vernant, of the talks on the ancient Greece, a file of the French-speaking Switzerland Television.
File Homage to Jean-Pierre Vernant on the site of the radio France Culture

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