Robert Zaretsky
Biographic Data
| ID | 684844 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Zaretsky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Zaretsky |
| SIGNATURE | ZARETSKY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Houston |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Unwilling Guide
The Unwilling Guide:Camus's The Plague Robert Zaretsky (bio) the novel coronavirus has introduced a different kind of novel, Albert Camus's The Plague, to a new generation of readers. By early March, copies of Camus's novel—an account of first responders resisting a plague in the Algerian city of Oran—had sold out on Amazon. At the same time, numerous articles and essays have used the novel in order to understand our own plague—my Google search "…
Catherine & Diderot
In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action
Boswell’s Enlightenment
Boswell's Enlightenment
The Tragic Nostalgia of Albert Camus
Algeria is never far from the center of Albert Camus's life and work—no further, in effect, than Ithaka is from the center of Odysseus's thoughts. In fact, Camus tended to see his native country through his readings of ancient Greek myth and tragedy. This article traces the ways in which Camus, with materials provided by ancient Greece, not only represented his native land, but also elaborated a “Mediterranean” school of thought—la pensée du Midi…
Tony Judt, Essayist and Pugilist
Discussion| February 01 2012 Tony Judt, Essayist and Pugilist Robert Zaretsky Robert Zaretsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2012) 35 (1): 167–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-1424974 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Zaretsky; Tony Judt, Essayist and Pugilist. French Historical Studies 1 February 2012; 35 (1): 167–179…
Voices from the Gulag
One of the most terrible legacies of our century is the concentration camp. Countless men and women have passed through camps in Nazi Germany, Communist China, and the Soviet bloc countries. In Voices from the Gulag, Tzvetan Todorov singles out the experience of one country where the concentration camps were particularly brutal and emblematic of the horrors of totalitarianism-communist Bulgaria. The voices we hear in this book are mostly from Lov…
Neither Left, nor Right, nor Straight Ahead
France under the Germans
Exemplary Histories
Robert Zaretsky, Exemplary Histories: Tzvetan Todorov and the Search for Foundations, South Central Review, Vol. 15, No. 3/4, Tzvetan Todorov and the Writing of History (Autumn - Winter, 1998), pp. 30-37
Vintages and Traditions
Nimes at War
The Hollow Years
Nîmes at War
Catherine & Diderot
In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action
The Tragic Nostalgia of Albert Camus
Algeria is never far from the center of Albert Camus's life and work—no further, in effect, than Ithaka is from the center of Odysseus's thoughts. In fact, Camus tended to see his native country through his readings of ancient Greek myth and tragedy. This article traces the ways in which Camus, with materials provided by ancient Greece, not only represented his native land, but also elaborated a “Mediterranean” school of thought—la pensée du Midi…
Voices from the Gulag
One of the most terrible legacies of our century is the concentration camp. Countless men and women have passed through camps in Nazi Germany, Communist China, and the Soviet bloc countries. In Voices from the Gulag, Tzvetan Todorov singles out the experience of one country where the concentration camps were particularly brutal and emblematic of the horrors of totalitarianism-communist Bulgaria. The voices we hear in this book are mostly from Lov…
Neither Left, nor Right, nor Straight Ahead
Nîmes at War
Nîmes at War
The Hollow Years
Nimes at War
France under the Germans
Exemplary Histories
Robert Zaretsky, Exemplary Histories: Tzvetan Todorov and the Search for Foundations, South Central Review, Vol. 15, No. 3/4, Tzvetan Todorov and the Writing of History (Autumn - Winter, 1998), pp. 30-37
Vintages and Traditions
Voices from the Gulag
One of the most terrible legacies of our century is the concentration camp. Countless men and women have passed through camps in Nazi Germany, Communist China, and the Soviet bloc countries. In Voices from the Gulag, Tzvetan Todorov singles out the experience of one country where the concentration camps were particularly brutal and emblematic of the horrors of totalitarianism-communist Bulgaria. The voices we hear in this book are mostly from Lov…
Neither Left, nor Right, nor Straight Ahead
Tony Judt, Essayist and Pugilist
Discussion| February 01 2012 Tony Judt, Essayist and Pugilist Robert Zaretsky Robert Zaretsky Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (2012) 35 (1): 167–179. https://doi.org/10.1215/00161071-1424974 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Permissions Search Site Citation Robert Zaretsky; Tony Judt, Essayist and Pugilist. French Historical Studies 1 February 2012; 35 (1): 167–179…
The Tragic Nostalgia of Albert Camus
Algeria is never far from the center of Albert Camus's life and work—no further, in effect, than Ithaka is from the center of Odysseus's thoughts. In fact, Camus tended to see his native country through his readings of ancient Greek myth and tragedy. This article traces the ways in which Camus, with materials provided by ancient Greece, not only represented his native land, but also elaborated a “Mediterranean” school of thought—la pensée du Midi…
Boswell’s Enlightenment
Boswell's Enlightenment
Catherine & Diderot
In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action
The Unwilling Guide
The Unwilling Guide:Camus's The Plague Robert Zaretsky (bio) the novel coronavirus has introduced a different kind of novel, Albert Camus's The Plague, to a new generation of readers. By early March, copies of Camus's novel—an account of first responders resisting a plague in the Algerian city of Oran—had sold out on Amazon. At the same time, numerous articles and essays have used the novel in order to understand our own plague—my Google search "…
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