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The Origins of Authoritarianism: What the Rise of Napoleon Bonaparte Tells Us about the Fundamental Problems of Modernity
Born in Panama and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Lynn Hunt received her B.A. from Carleton College (1967) and her M.A. (1968) and Ph.D. (1973) from Stanford University.
Before coming to UCLA, where she is Distinguished Research Professor and Eugen Weber Professor Emerita, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania (1987–1998) and the University of California, Berkeley (1974–1987). She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Member of the American Philosophical Society, and a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.
Her books concern a variety of topics ranging from the origins of human rights in the eighteenth century, Inventing Human Rights (2007), to the question of time and history writing, Measuring Time: Making History (2008), early 18th-century views of the world's religions, The Book that Changed Europe (with M. Jacob and W. Mijnhardt, 2010), and Writing History in the Global Era (2014). Her abiding focus has been the French Revolution: Revolution and Urban Politics in Provincial France (1978); Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution (1984); and The Family Romance of the French Revolution (1992). In her research, she has also engaged with historical method and epistemology: The New Cultural History (1989); with Joyce Appleby and Margaret Jacob, Telling the Truth about History (1994); with Jacques Revel, Histories: French Constructions of the Past (1995); with Victoria Bonnell, Beyond the Cultural Turn (1999); and History: Why It Matters (2018). In addition, she has edited collections on the history of eroticism, pornography, and human rights, and co-authored a western civilization textbook, The Making of the West: Peoples and Cultures (7th ed. 2022). Her books have been translated into 14 languages. Her most recent book appeared in February 2025, The Revolutionary Self.
Hunt will give three Lectures:
30.3 – The Invention of Authoritarianism
1.4 – The Social Origins of Authoritarianism
3.4 – Authoritarianism and the Media
ההרצאות יתקיימו בזום ואינן בתשלום אך נדרשת הרשמה מראש: להרשמה לחץ כאן
