Roger Chartier
Список книг автора Roger ChartierPresencias del pasado
A través d'aquesta breu selecció de la intensa, atractiva i suggeridora activitat d'investigació que el professor Roger Chartier ha dut a terme durant els darrers anys, veiem com ha transformat en font de coneixement històric els discursos del passat, que hem rebut en herència, avaluant l'entramat social i cultural en el qual van sorgir, així com les modalitats de recepció i ús a les quals es van veure sotmesos al llarg del temps. La intervenció d'editors i impressors va transformar els textos en objectes tangibles que van possibilitar l'encontre i el diàleg entre l'autor i el lector, i, ara, entre passat i present. La lliçó del passat, com la de la Història, en paraules de Chartier, ha de «proporcionar als ciutadans d'avui en dia els instruments crítics que permeten rebutjar les falsificacions i establir els coneixements sense els quals no hi ha democràcia».
The Sociologist and the Historian
In 1988, the renowned sociologist Pierre Bourdieu and the leading historian Roger Chartier met for a series of lively discussions that were broadcast on French public radio. Published here for the first time, these conversations are an accessible and engaging introduction to the work of these two great thinkers, who discuss their work and explore the similarities and differences between their disciplines with the clarity and frankness of the spoken word. Bourdieu and Chartier discuss some of the core themes of Bourdieu’s work, such as his theory of fields, his notions of habitus and symbolic power and his account of the relation between structures and individuals, and they examine the relevance of these ideas to the study of historical events and processes. They also discuss at length Bourdieu’s work on culture and aesthetics, including his work on Flaubert and Manet and his analyses of the formation of the literary and artistic fields. Reflecting on the differences between sociology and history, Bourdieu and Chartier observe that while history deals with the past, sociology is dealing with living subjects who are often confronted with discourses that speak about them, and therefore it disrupts, disconcerts and encounters resistance in ways that few other disciplines do. This unique dialogue between two great figures is a testimony to the richness of Bourdieu’s thought and its enduring relevance for the humanities and social sciences today.
The Author's Hand and the Printer's Mind. Transformations of the Written Word in Early Modern Europe
In Early Modern Europe the first readers of a book were not those who bought it. They were the scribes who copied the author’s or translator’s manuscript, the censors who licensed it, the publisher who decided to put this title in his catalogue, the copy editor who prepared the text for the press, divided it and added punctuation, the typesetters who composed the pages of the book, and the proof reader who corrected them. The author’s hand cannot be separated from the printers’ mind. This book is devoted to the process of publication of the works that framed their readers’ representations of the past or of the world. Linking cultural history, textual criticism and bibliographical studies, dealing with canonical works – like Cervantes’ Don Quixote or Shakespeare’s plays – as well as lesser known texts, Roger Chartier identifies the fundamental discontinuities that transformed the circulation of the written word between the invention of printing and the definition, three centuries later, of what we call 'literature'.