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Le dernier livre de Lucien Jerphagnon

The complete critical texts written by the famous historian Lucien Jerphagnon, who died in 2011, never before published as a collection. A panorama of historical research over the past fifty years, as delightful as it is enriching. This book gathers together all the critical texts by the great historian published between 1962 and 2011, never before available in one volume, including his contributions to several major French and international reviews, including Historia, L'Histoire, La Nouvelle Revue d'Histoire, Latomus (Société d'études latines, Brussels), Les Études philosophiques, La Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, La Revue de métaphysique et de morale, La Revue des Deux Mondes, La Revue philosophique de Louvain, and others. In its entirety, the book provides a panorama of historical research over more than half a century and a vision of a great historian at work. Guided by a concern for truth, rigour, and exactitude, he opens up the most fascinating of reading rooms and leads us towards that which he stood for throughout his existence, "a life made harmonious by encouraging in man his consciousness of himself and of the world." Lucien Jerphagnon was one of the founding members of the Centre international d'études platoniciennes et aristotéliciennes d'Athènes and advisor to the Institut international de philosophie for eighteen years. Professeur des Universités emeritus, he is the author of about thirty works, including the book of interviews granted Christiane Rancé entitled De l'amour, de la mort, de Dieu et autres bagatelles (Albin Michel, 2011), the best-seller that earned him recognition by a broad public; Connais-toi toi-même et fais ce que tu aimes (Albin Michel, 2012); L'Homme qui riait avec les dieux (Albin Michel, 2013); Les Armes et les Mots (Tallandier, 1987, re-published by Robert Laffont, 2013),