サムネイル|４０歳の時の絵画 ジャック・バーザン（Jacques Barzun、1907年11月30日 - 2012年10月25日）は、フランスのグルノーブルで生まれ、1933年にアメリカ合衆国に帰化した哲学者、歴史家。思想史と文化史の研究を専門とし、哲学教育の研究でも知られた。
2012年10月25日、テキサス州サンアントニオで死去Jacques Barzun, Historian and Educator, Is Dead at 104 New York Times 2012年10月26日閲覧。。
著書 1932 The French Race: Theories of Its Origins and Their Social and Political Implications 1937 Race: a Study in Modern Superstition (Revised, 1965 Race: A Study in Superstition) 1939 Of Human Freedom 1941 Darwin, Marx, Wagner: Critique of a Heritage 『ダーウィン、マルクス、ヴァーグナー 知的遺産の批判』野島秀勝訳、法政大学出版局・叢書ウニベルシタス, 1999 1943 Romanticism and the Modern Ego 1945 Teacher in America 1951 Pleasures of Music 1954 God's Country and Mine: A Declaration of Love, Spiced with a Few Harsh Words 1956 Music in American Life 1956 The Energies of Art 1959 The House of Intellect 1960 Lincoln the Literary Genius (first published in The Saturday Evening Post, 14 February 1959) 1961 The Delights of Detection 1961 Classic, Romantic, and Modern 1964 Science: The Glorious Entertainment 1967 What Man Has Built (introductory booklet to the Great Ages of Man book series) 1968 The American University: How It Runs, Where It Is Going 1969 Berlioz and the Romantic Century (3d ed.) 1971 On Writing, Editing, and Publishing 1971 A Catalogue of Crime (with Wendell Hertig Taylor) 1975 Simple and Direct: A Rhetoric for Writers 1976 The Bibliophile of the Future: His Complaints about the Twentieth Century 1980 Three Talks at Northern Kentucky University 1982 Lincoln's Philosophic Vision 1982 Critical Questions 1983 A Stroll with William James 1986 A Word or Two Before You Go: Brief Essays on Language 1989 The Culture We Deserve: A Critique of Disenlightenment 1991 An Essay on French Verse for Readers of English Poetry 1991 Begin Here: The Forgotten Conditions of Teaching and Learning 2000 From Dawn to Decadence: 500 Years of Western Cultural Life, 1500 to the Present 2001 Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass 2002 A Jacques Barzun Reader 2002 What is a School? and Trim the College! 2003 The Modern Researcher (6th ed.) (with Henry F. Graff) 2004 Four More Sidelights on Opera at Glimmerglass: 2001-2004 Barzun has also translated a number of works of French literature into English, and edited writings by others, including the selected letters of Lord Byron and John Jay Chapman.
外部リンク article by Thomas Vinciguerra Site devoted to writings about Barzun, including interviews. Barzun 100 blog celebrating Barzun's centennial Barzun Centennial website In Depth with Jacques Barzun from C-SPAN's BookTV, 6 May 2001 (RealPlayer file) Interview with Barzun in The Austin Chronicle, 2003
On From Dawn to Decadence: A synopsis along with a short bio of the author. Kimball, Roger, "Closing time? Jacques Barzun on Western culture," New Criterion, 18 June 2000. A positive take. Kenan Malik, "Review." Independent on Sunday, 25 February 2001. Reilly, John J., 2000, "Review", First Things 107: 43-44. Is Democratic Theory for Export? PDF of speech presented at Carnegie Council's Sixth Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture
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