Perrine Simon-nahum
PhD student
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Centre de recherches politiques Raymond Aron
France
Biography
H istorienne of contemporary France, Perrine Simon-Nahum was particularly interested in the constitution of modern subjectivity at the crossroads of philosophy, history and the science of religions in France in the XIX th century. His research focuses on the work of Renan, the French and German philologists but also on the history of intellectuals and the French Judaism to XIX th and XX th centuries. She is also a collection director at Editions Grasset, a contributor to the Literary Magazine. Advisor to the editors of the magazine Le Banquet, P. Simon-Nahum is also a member of the editorial board of the journal Comprendre ..
Research Interest
Intellectual history and political historyHistory of religions and religious traditions XIX th -XX th centuryHistory and historiographyHistory of Greek Studies in the West. Current situation of research in France and public policies.
Publications
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"Tomb of the intellectuals. The memory of French intellectuals and the thought of death ", in Mémoires, Political Space and Intersubjectivity , edited by P. Zawadski, forthcoming.
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Raymond Aron, Dimensions of historical consciousness , Paris, Les Belles-Lettres, "The Taste of Ideas", 2011, Foreword P. Simon-Nahum, p. 7-24.
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Precursors and founders: the new faces of Judaism at the turn of the century", in Centennial of ULIF , December 2007.
