{{short description|American historian}}

'''Jerrold Seigel''' is an American historian who is professor emeritus at New York University. He taught for twenty-five years at Princeton University.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jerrold Seigel, PhD|url=http://www.nourfoundation.com/speakers/Jerrold-Seigel-PhD.html|website=Nour Foundation|accessdate=15 July 2017}}</ref> His book ''Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750'' (2012), won the 2014 Laura Shannon Prize for "the best book in European studies that transcends a focus on any one country, state, or people to stimulate new ways of thinking about contemporary Europe as a whole."<ref>{{cite web|title=JERROLD SEIGEL|url=http://nyihumanities.org/jerrold-seigel/|website=New York Institute for the Humanities}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Caro|first1=Monica|title=Nanovic Institute awards $10,000 Laura Shannon Prize to 'Modernity and Bourgeois Life'|url=http://news.nd.edu/news/nanovic-institute-awards-10-000-laura-shannon-prize-to-modernity-and-bourgeois-life/|accessdate=15 July 2017|work=Notre Dame News|date=February 12, 2014}}</ref> He has been called "one of the greatest practitioners of intellectual history in our time"<ref>{{cite web|title=Between Cultures|url=http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15444.html|website=upenn.edu|accessdate=15 July 2017}}</ref> and sits on the editorial board of the Journal of the History of Ideas.

==Bibliography== * ''Marx's Fate: The Shape of a Life'' (Princeton University Press, 1978) * ''Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930'' (Viking, 1986) * ''The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation, and the Self in Modern Culture'' (University of California Press, 1995) * ''The Idea of the Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century'' (Cambridge University Press, 2005). * ''Modernity and Bourgeois Life: Society, Politics and Culture in England, France, and Germany since 1750'' (Cambridge University Press, 2012) * ''Between Cultures: Europe and Its Others in Five Exemplary Lives'' (Penn Press, 2015) * ''Remaking the World: European Distinctiveness and the Transformation of Politics, Culture, and the Economy'' (Cambridge University Press, 2024)

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==External links== * [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/23/books/indiscretions-of-the-bourgeoisie.html "Indiscretions of the Bourgeoise"], review of ''Bohemian Paris: Culture, Politics, and the Boundaries of Bourgeois Life, 1830-1930'' (1986) in ''New York Times'' * [https://eclass.uoa.gr/modules/document/file.php/PPP544/Jerrold%20Seigel-The%20Idea%20of%20the%20Self_%20Thought%20and%20Experience%20in%20Western%20Europe%20since%20the%20Seventeenth%20Century-Cambridge%20Universit.pdf ''The Idea of Self: Thought and Experience in Western Europe since the Seventeenth Century''] (2005)

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