Philippe Desan
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Dr. Philippe Desan is a professor of Romance languages at the University of Chicago. Originally from France, Dr. Desan is among the top Montaigne scholars alive today. He received his Phd. from the University of California Davis, and has published widely on several topics pertaining to the French Renaissance.
Other accolades include:
-Knighthood from the French Government -Served for 7 years as Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago.
[edit] Books
Naissance de la méthode: Machiavel, La Ramée, Bodin, Montaigne, Descartes (Paris, 1987), Humanism in Crisis: The Decline of the French Renaissance (Ann Arbor, 1991), Les Commerces de Montaigne (Paris, 1992), Penser l'Histoire à la Renaissance (Paris, 1993), Montaigne, les Cannibales et les Conquistadores (Paris, 1994), Literary Objects: Flaubert (Chicago, 1996), Montaigne dans tous ses états (Fasano, 2001), Reproduction en quadrichromie de l’Exemplaire de Bordeaux des Essais de Montaigne (Chicago, 2002), L'Imaginaire économique de la Renaissance (Paris, 2002), Dictionnaire de Michel de Montaigne (Paris, 2004), Reproduction fac-similé de l’édition de 1582 des Essais de Montaigne (Paris, 2005), Montaigne politique (Paris, 2006), Portraits à l'essai: iconographie de Montaigne (Paris, 2007).
