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Pierre Force
Professor
Columbia University
Department of French and Romance Philology
URL:
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Biography
Pierre Force, Professor of French and History, received his academic training in
France
, where he was a fellow of the École normale supérieure. He took his BA (1979), doctorate (1987), and habilitation (1994) at the Sorbonne. He first came to the United States in 1984 as a lecturer at
Yale
University
, and he joined the
Columbia
faculty in 1987. His field of research is seventeenth and eighteenth-century intellectual history. He is the author of Le Problème herméneutique chez Pascal (Paris: Vrin, 1989), Molière ou Le Prix des choses (Paris: Nathan, 1994), and Self-Interest before Adam Smith (Cambridge University Press, 2003). He has also published articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas, History of Political Economy, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, Yale French Studies, and the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought. He received the Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award in 2005. His teaching interests include the history of hermeneutics, the philosophy of history, and the development of moral and political thought in early modern
Europe
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