Nathan Bracher
Biographic Data
| ID | 548405 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nathan Bracher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Bracher |
| SIGNATURE | BRACHER N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7642-9327 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 31 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Of Rock Stars and Politics
This article focuses on the historiographic questions posed—and answered—by Ivan Jablonka’s August 2023 historical biography of singer-songwriter-composer Jean-Jacques Goldman, and in particular on issues of subjectivity. On the one hand, Jablonka makes his own active presence as a historian visible and explicit in his narrative, thus continuing the historiography implemented in his books since publishing his Histoire des grands-parents que je n’…
Les historiens et leurs ombres
L'historien, en tant que sujet, est lié non seulement à son passé familial mais aussi à ses connaissances. L'histoire méthodique prétendait, au début, proscrire toute subjectivité, mettant l'historien à l'écart des recherches et de l'écriture. Or les événements et l'évolution historiographiques ont rendu caduque cette posture scientiste. Ce vingt-et-unième siècle voit les historiens s'impliquer ostensiblement dans leurs ouvrages. C'est le cas not…
Matters of principle for Jérôme Ferrari
This article analyses Jérôme Ferrari’s novel Le Principe, reflecting on the life and research of Werner Heisenberg, whose famous uncertainty principle is thus explored as a paradigm of a whole series of epistemological, existential and ethical quandaries. Juxtaposing the author/narrator’s personal vicissitudes with the ambivalent trajectory of the Nobel Prize-winning physicist who, without being a Nazi, carried out nuclear research under Hitler’s…
Jablonka et la question du sujet en sciences sociales
With its compelling portrait of a young woman who was savagely murdered after having endured various forms of male violence throughout her life, Ivan Jablonka's Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes also provides a stark depiction of French society and politics in the second decade of the twentyfirst century. In deconstructing the sensationalism of the conventional crime story, the researcher-narrator seeks to draw as near as possible to the vivacious, y…
Écrire la (non-)violence
This article analyses Ivan Jablonka’s Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes, which garnered three major prizes in the fall of 2016 (Le Prix Littéraire du Monde, Le Médicis et Le Prix des Prix) while also receiving quasi-unanimous acclaim from French press and media. My purpose is to explain how Jablonka’s writing contributes to exposing, denouncing and even, as far as possible ex post facto and by means of a text, undertaking a kind of reparation of the …
The Twentieth Century and the Lessons of History
Beyond the accumulation of knowledge, can we really learn from the past? Can we make an intellectually serious case for seeking, obtaining, and teaching “the lessons of history”? Is it legitimate to ask why the Holocaust happened? Answering in the affirmative, the present article will indicate why these questions remain pertinent for the twenty-first century and how several recent books by some of the most prominent historians of World War II and…
Telling the Story of History with Henry Rousso and Ivan Jablonka
Appearing in English translation in the first half of 2016, some four years after their publication in the original French, both Ivan Jablonka’s A History of the Grandparents I Never Had and Henry Rousso’s The Latest Catastrophe reflect on the foundations of history and historiography. Why do we study the past and how? In answering those essential questions, both Rousso and Jablonka tell a story, the story of history, while at the same time adumb…
L'Histoire hors sujet ou Écrire le passé « comme Elstir peignait la mer »
Frappé par certains grands succès de librairies récents (notamment Les Bienveillantes, JanKarski et HHhH), on a beaucoup réfléchi, notamment dans le numéro spécial du Débat consacré à « L'Histoire saisie par la fiction », sur la place, la portée et la fonction de l'histoire dans la production de textes littéraires. Nous nous emploierons dans le présent article à apprécier certains aspects littéraires de l'écriture historienne dans « l'enquête » d…
Pour une histoire à l’imparfait du présent
Cet article prend La Dernière Catastrophe : l’histoire, le présent, le contemporain de l’historien français Henry Rousso comme point de départ pour un essai sur le rôle de l’historien et la fonction de l’histoire dans le contexte de ce vingt-et-unième siècle naissant. Écrite par nécessité dans une époque encore et toujours secouée par les soubresauts et cataclysmes – c’est-à-dire les catastrophes, justement – du siècle dernier, l’histoire contemp…
Hélène Berr et l'écriture de l'histoire
The Intellectual and ‘La Nation’ in Jean Guéhenno’s Journal des années noires
This article explores Jean Guéhenno’s perspectives on the role and function of the intellectual both in the context of the Occupation, and in relation to ‘la nation’, understood in the original revolutionary sense of the people constituted into the body politic. Clandestinely written, Guéhenno’s Journal des années noires seems at first blush a solitary exercise in thought and observation. Closer analysis reveals, however, that although Guéhenno t…
Timely Meditations on the Use and Abuse of History
This article studies the question of history during the dramatic moments recorded in Léon Werth's Déposition: Journal de guerre 1940-1944. Analyzed in reference to Nietzsche, Descartes, and Lévinas, Werth's journal approaches history in a manner timely for then and now. Probing his own knowledge of and relation to France's unsettling defeat and Occupation by Nazi Germany,Werth undertakes his own version of a Cogito that leads not to some linear c…
Des Considérations inactuelles au coeur de l'Occupation
Written in Paris during the darkest moments of the German Occupation, but only published in 2008, Hélène Berr's Journal was immediately hailed for its dramatic testimony and striking insights. With precision and lucidity, the young Jewish student at the Sorbonne records the human tragedies unfolding all around her in the wake of the Holocaust, while at the same time reviewing her own manner of experiencing these traumatic events through her perso…
Le fin mot de l'histoire
Le présent article analyse la voix narrative d'Irène Némirovsky dans Tempête en juin, la première partie de son œuvre posthume Suite française, publiée en 2004 après être restée inconnue pendant quelque soixante ans. Nous avançons donc deux thèses principales. D'abord, contrairement à ce qu'affirmait Sartre dans son article sur ‘M. François Mauriac et la liberté’, c'est justement un point de vue narratif multiple et changeant, à la fois intérieur…
Soixante ans aprà ̈s
In reviewing various commemorations that highlighted the year 2005 in France, this article points out the major evolutions of memory visible primarily in the press and media coverage of these events. If public memory remains as highly charged and polemical as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, attention is clearly turning away from the Occupation and Vichy to focus more on Europe and on France's colonial past, as we see not only in the ceremonies cel…
A Not So Distant Mirror
Dans cet article, l'A s'interesse a l'oeuvre critique de Francois Mauriac concernant la societe et la culture americaine. L'A revient sur la situation historique d'apres guerre pour expliquer une partie de la vision de Mauriac, qui ne s'arrete pas a une simple diatribe anti-capiatliste, mais dont l'analyse se revele plus fine et pertinente
Commémorations Du Jour-J 2004
European Borders
The Dreyfus Affair in François Mauriac's Bloc-Notes
Memory Null and Void? The Broken Record of Vichy Polemics in the Papon Case
Les Chrétiens français entre crise et libération 1937–1947Fouilloux, étienne. Les Chrétiens français entre crise et libération 1937–1947 . éditions du Seuil
History, Memory, and Humanism in the Recent Writings of Tzvetan Todorov
conquest of the New World and on racial or ideological enemies by the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, he warns against the excesses of memory and rejects the notion of collective guilt of peoples and cultures. Similarly, Todorov analyzes the unspeakable treatment inflicted on human beings in the Nazi and Stalinist camps in order to elucidate the fundamental moral principles essential to everyday life. Moreover, after revealing the …
Labyrinths
Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the unstated agenda of neoconservative cultural theory and a discussion of Walter Benjamin's place in cultural studies are included in the text
Les Abus de la mémoireTodorov, Tzvetan. Les Abus de la mémoire . Paris
Mitterrand and the Lessons of History
Des Considérations inactuelles au coeur de l'Occupation
Written in Paris during the darkest moments of the German Occupation, but only published in 2008, Hélène Berr's Journal was immediately hailed for its dramatic testimony and striking insights. With precision and lucidity, the young Jewish student at the Sorbonne records the human tragedies unfolding all around her in the wake of the Holocaust, while at the same time reviewing her own manner of experiencing these traumatic events through her perso…
Commémorations Du Jour-J 2004
The Dreyfus Affair in François Mauriac's Bloc-Notes
A Time to Remember
Mauriac and Decolonization
Nomination originelle et la notion de l’interprétant
Les Anticolonialistes, 1881–1962Biondi, Jean-Pierre. Les Anticolonialistes, 1881–1962 . Paris
The Holocaust, the French, and the JewsZucotti, Susan. The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews . New York
Past Imperfect
Mauriac and Decolonization
Mitterrand and the Lessons of History
A Time to Remember
Les Abus de la mémoireTodorov, Tzvetan. Les Abus de la mémoire . Paris
Labyrinths
Ten essays on issues in philosophy, literary theory and intellectual history. The question of radical imperialism of the postmodern turn, the unstated agenda of neoconservative cultural theory and a discussion of Walter Benjamin's place in cultural studies are included in the text
Les Chrétiens français entre crise et libération 1937–1947Fouilloux, étienne. Les Chrétiens français entre crise et libération 1937–1947 . éditions du Seuil
History, Memory, and Humanism in the Recent Writings of Tzvetan Todorov
conquest of the New World and on racial or ideological enemies by the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth century, he warns against the excesses of memory and rejects the notion of collective guilt of peoples and cultures. Similarly, Todorov analyzes the unspeakable treatment inflicted on human beings in the Nazi and Stalinist camps in order to elucidate the fundamental moral principles essential to everyday life. Moreover, after revealing the …
Memory Null and Void? The Broken Record of Vichy Polemics in the Papon Case
The Dreyfus Affair in François Mauriac's Bloc-Notes
European Borders
Commémorations Du Jour-J 2004
A Not So Distant Mirror
Dans cet article, l'A s'interesse a l'oeuvre critique de Francois Mauriac concernant la societe et la culture americaine. L'A revient sur la situation historique d'apres guerre pour expliquer une partie de la vision de Mauriac, qui ne s'arrete pas a une simple diatribe anti-capiatliste, mais dont l'analyse se revele plus fine et pertinente
Soixante ans aprà ̈s
In reviewing various commemorations that highlighted the year 2005 in France, this article points out the major evolutions of memory visible primarily in the press and media coverage of these events. If public memory remains as highly charged and polemical as it was in the 1980s and 1990s, attention is clearly turning away from the Occupation and Vichy to focus more on Europe and on France's colonial past, as we see not only in the ceremonies cel…
Le fin mot de l'histoire
Le présent article analyse la voix narrative d'Irène Némirovsky dans Tempête en juin, la première partie de son œuvre posthume Suite française, publiée en 2004 après être restée inconnue pendant quelque soixante ans. Nous avançons donc deux thèses principales. D'abord, contrairement à ce qu'affirmait Sartre dans son article sur ‘M. François Mauriac et la liberté’, c'est justement un point de vue narratif multiple et changeant, à la fois intérieur…
Des Considérations inactuelles au coeur de l'Occupation
Written in Paris during the darkest moments of the German Occupation, but only published in 2008, Hélène Berr's Journal was immediately hailed for its dramatic testimony and striking insights. With precision and lucidity, the young Jewish student at the Sorbonne records the human tragedies unfolding all around her in the wake of the Holocaust, while at the same time reviewing her own manner of experiencing these traumatic events through her perso…
Timely Meditations on the Use and Abuse of History
This article studies the question of history during the dramatic moments recorded in Léon Werth's Déposition: Journal de guerre 1940-1944. Analyzed in reference to Nietzsche, Descartes, and Lévinas, Werth's journal approaches history in a manner timely for then and now. Probing his own knowledge of and relation to France's unsettling defeat and Occupation by Nazi Germany,Werth undertakes his own version of a Cogito that leads not to some linear c…
The Intellectual and ‘La Nation’ in Jean Guéhenno’s Journal des années noires
This article explores Jean Guéhenno’s perspectives on the role and function of the intellectual both in the context of the Occupation, and in relation to ‘la nation’, understood in the original revolutionary sense of the people constituted into the body politic. Clandestinely written, Guéhenno’s Journal des années noires seems at first blush a solitary exercise in thought and observation. Closer analysis reveals, however, that although Guéhenno t…
Hélène Berr et l'écriture de l'histoire
L'Histoire hors sujet ou Écrire le passé « comme Elstir peignait la mer »
Frappé par certains grands succès de librairies récents (notamment Les Bienveillantes, JanKarski et HHhH), on a beaucoup réfléchi, notamment dans le numéro spécial du Débat consacré à « L'Histoire saisie par la fiction », sur la place, la portée et la fonction de l'histoire dans la production de textes littéraires. Nous nous emploierons dans le présent article à apprécier certains aspects littéraires de l'écriture historienne dans « l'enquête » d…
Pour une histoire à l’imparfait du présent
Cet article prend La Dernière Catastrophe : l’histoire, le présent, le contemporain de l’historien français Henry Rousso comme point de départ pour un essai sur le rôle de l’historien et la fonction de l’histoire dans le contexte de ce vingt-et-unième siècle naissant. Écrite par nécessité dans une époque encore et toujours secouée par les soubresauts et cataclysmes – c’est-à-dire les catastrophes, justement – du siècle dernier, l’histoire contemp…
Écrire la (non-)violence
This article analyses Ivan Jablonka’s Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes, which garnered three major prizes in the fall of 2016 (Le Prix Littéraire du Monde, Le Médicis et Le Prix des Prix) while also receiving quasi-unanimous acclaim from French press and media. My purpose is to explain how Jablonka’s writing contributes to exposing, denouncing and even, as far as possible ex post facto and by means of a text, undertaking a kind of reparation of the …
Art (22 works) · Philosophy (21 works) · History (14 works) · Humanities (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · French Historical and Cultural Studies (9 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Law (6 works)