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Home » Uncategorized » Pierre Saint-Amand celebrates Robert Harrison: “a mix of rock’n’roll and oracular antiquity” « Cheers to the man whose name is a rhyme! Poetry champion Mike Peich turns 80! On April 19, Stanford celebrated the remarkable and many-faceted career of Professor Robert Pogue Harrison , Rosina Pierotti Professor in Italian Literature in the Department of French & Italian. We published Andrea Capra ‘s tribute to him “How to Think with Robert Pogue Harrison,” on the Book Haven . Capra, a grateful former student, is now Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Princeton . Today, we share the presentation from a colleague who attended the festivities. Pierre Saint-Amand , Yale University’s Benjamin F. Barge Professor of French (he was formerly at Stanford), focuses his research on 18th-century literature, especially the libertine novel, the philosophy of the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and literary criticism and theory. Some of you may remember also him from the Another Look 2019 discussion of Madame de LaFayette’s landmark 1678 novella, The Princesse de Clèves . He was a brilliant addition to the Another Look panel, and a lively presence at Stanford day-long symposium for Robert Harrison as he officially transitioned to “emeritus.” Here’s what he said : I am pleased to say a few words about Robert Harrison as we open this conference on the occasion of his retirement. These will be not savant words but words of affection. Robert and I were both young assistant professors in the early eighties, here at Stanford. Robert was then a specialist of Dante , fresh from Cornell, having written on the Vita Nuova . I am glad I had a front row seat to the immediate rise of his global success and his amazing career. I saw him mutate to become a philosopher, in the old sense of the term, one expressing his views on the human condition, and a public intellectual as he took to the waves. Everything started with Forests: The Shadow of Civilization , a prescient book of which I remember the humble and patient beginning. Robert put […]
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