Arthur Goldhammer
Writer and TranslatorCES Affiliate
Contact Information
E-Mail: a.goldhammer@comcast.net
Biographical Information
Goldhammer, a translator specializing in French history, literature, philosophy, and social science, has translated more than a hundred works by many of France’s most noted authors. He is on the editorial board of the journal French Politics, Culture and Society and in 1996 was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. In 1997, he was awarded the Médaille de Vermeil by the Académie Française. He is working on a book about democracy after Tocqueville, whose Democracy in America he translated in 2004 and for which he received the Florence Gould Translation Prize, as well as on a novel about American physicists in Europe on the eve of World War II. He is also translating a new book by Pierre Rosanvallon and a collection of the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, as well as a new translation of Tocqueville’s L’Ancien Régime et la Révolution. In addition, he hosts a blog on French politics at artgoldhammer.blogspot.com and chairs the Center’s seminar for visiting scholars.
