C. Jon Delogu has worked at three French public universities since 1992 and is currently professeur des universités at the Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3 where he teaches American history, comparative literature, and translation. He studied philosophy and French at Dartmouth College and earned a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University (1991). He is the author of Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy (punctum books, 2022), Tocqueville and Democracy in the Internet Age (Open Humanities Press, 2014), and Ralph Waldo Emerson: Une introduction (Les Perséides, 2006). He has published numerous essays on British and American literature and the teaching profession. He has also translated a dozen books (for Columbia University Press, University of Georgia Press, Other Press, Polity, and Brill) and many scholarly articles.
Thoughts on France's retirement age controversy in 2023 with special attention to the harm of hyp... more Thoughts on France's retirement age controversy in 2023 with special attention to the harm of hyperbole.
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom, 2022
This is the advanced draft of my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape ... more This is the advanced draft of my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy" (Punctum Books, 2022) - 472 pages. Available as a free download or affordable paperback here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59202
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy, 2022
This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerabili... more This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy" (Punctum Books, 2022). Available as free download or affordable POD paperback here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59202
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom, 2022
This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my book published by Punctum Books (open access)... more This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my book published by Punctum Books (open access) on 11 November 2022. It is available as a free download or affordable paperback here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59202
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom, 2022
this document is an advanced rough draft of the Introduction of my book Fascism, Vulnerability, a... more this document is an advanced rough draft of the Introduction of my book Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom published according to Open Access guidelines by Punctum Books on 11 November 2022
This paper, written during my quarantine in Lyon France in early June 2020, claims that the upcom... more This paper, written during my quarantine in Lyon France in early June 2020, claims that the upcoming US presidential election is too important to leave to the Americans, and calls for international public protests--online and in the streets--to "Dump Trump and Save the Planet".
This paper was written on June 4, 2020 during my quarantine in Lyon, France. It call on the inter... more This paper was written on June 4, 2020 during my quarantine in Lyon, France. It call on the international community to "meddle" in the 2020 US elections via public protests--online and in the streets--to "Dump Trump and Save the Planet".
This text on Trump and democracy in America in viral times was a talk presented virtually at Univ... more This text on Trump and democracy in America in viral times was a talk presented virtually at Universite Jean Moulin Lyon in March 2020.
This paper was originally meant as a talk delivered to English majors and others at my (now close... more This paper was originally meant as a talk delivered to English majors and others at my (now closed) university, U. Lyon 3 in France. It argues that authoritarianization in America (led by President Trump) has weakened democratic institutions and makes it more difficult for the country to respond to national emergencies such as the coronavirus epidemic.
This paper and talk presents a brief history of "accountability" as a concept and deed: looking a... more This paper and talk presents a brief history of "accountability" as a concept and deed: looking at English and French notions of accountability, its importance in the thinking of John S. Mill, and in contemporary American politics.
As it turned out, we each enjoyed a certain heady freedom that we did not feel at home. Since com... more As it turned out, we each enjoyed a certain heady freedom that we did not feel at home. Since committees, tracking, and tradition in French schools largely determine course content and method for both students and teachers, Jeff had the novel freedom of not having to design his own
Page 1. THE SEDUCTRESS IN OPERA JEAN STAROBINSKI TRANSLATED BY C. JON DELOCU Page 2. Page 3. Page... more Page 1. THE SEDUCTRESS IN OPERA JEAN STAROBINSKI TRANSLATED BY C. JON DELOCU Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Y~ ._--__ We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in op-era, we find pure enchantment. ...
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy, 2022
This Introduction presents the genesis and argument of my book (published by Punctum Books in Nov... more This Introduction presents the genesis and argument of my book (published by Punctum Books in November 2022); namely that in times of high vulnerability many people do not experience freedom as a positive opportunity and are tempted to solve problems of insecurity and status loss through far-right exclusionary populism; i.e., fascism or fascistic authoritarianism.
ELAD-SILDA (Études de Linguistique et d’Analyse des Discours / Studies in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis), 2023
This talk turned paper reviews the discourse of "conspiracism" and the tactics of conspiracy theo... more This talk turned paper reviews the discourse of "conspiracism" and the tactics of conspiracy theory strategists in the US from Joe McCarthy and the John Birch Society to Trump and Tucker Carlson and their many followers. This paper angles off the work of Hofstadter, Robert Goldberg, and Keith Payne with side comments on major works by Arthur Miller and Hannah Arendt.
Thoughts on France's retirement age controversy in 2023 with special attention to the harm of hyp... more Thoughts on France's retirement age controversy in 2023 with special attention to the harm of hyperbole.
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom, 2022
This is the advanced draft of my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape ... more This is the advanced draft of my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy" (Punctum Books, 2022) - 472 pages. Available as a free download or affordable paperback here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59202
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy, 2022
This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerabili... more This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my recently published book "Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy" (Punctum Books, 2022). Available as free download or affordable POD paperback here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59202
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom, 2022
This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my book published by Punctum Books (open access)... more This is an advanced draft of the Introduction to my book published by Punctum Books (open access) on 11 November 2022. It is available as a free download or affordable paperback here: https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59202
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom, 2022
this document is an advanced rough draft of the Introduction of my book Fascism, Vulnerability, a... more this document is an advanced rough draft of the Introduction of my book Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom published according to Open Access guidelines by Punctum Books on 11 November 2022
This paper, written during my quarantine in Lyon France in early June 2020, claims that the upcom... more This paper, written during my quarantine in Lyon France in early June 2020, claims that the upcoming US presidential election is too important to leave to the Americans, and calls for international public protests--online and in the streets--to "Dump Trump and Save the Planet".
This paper was written on June 4, 2020 during my quarantine in Lyon, France. It call on the inter... more This paper was written on June 4, 2020 during my quarantine in Lyon, France. It call on the international community to "meddle" in the 2020 US elections via public protests--online and in the streets--to "Dump Trump and Save the Planet".
This text on Trump and democracy in America in viral times was a talk presented virtually at Univ... more This text on Trump and democracy in America in viral times was a talk presented virtually at Universite Jean Moulin Lyon in March 2020.
This paper was originally meant as a talk delivered to English majors and others at my (now close... more This paper was originally meant as a talk delivered to English majors and others at my (now closed) university, U. Lyon 3 in France. It argues that authoritarianization in America (led by President Trump) has weakened democratic institutions and makes it more difficult for the country to respond to national emergencies such as the coronavirus epidemic.
This paper and talk presents a brief history of "accountability" as a concept and deed: looking a... more This paper and talk presents a brief history of "accountability" as a concept and deed: looking at English and French notions of accountability, its importance in the thinking of John S. Mill, and in contemporary American politics.
As it turned out, we each enjoyed a certain heady freedom that we did not feel at home. Since com... more As it turned out, we each enjoyed a certain heady freedom that we did not feel at home. Since committees, tracking, and tradition in French schools largely determine course content and method for both students and teachers, Jeff had the novel freedom of not having to design his own
Page 1. THE SEDUCTRESS IN OPERA JEAN STAROBINSKI TRANSLATED BY C. JON DELOCU Page 2. Page 3. Page... more Page 1. THE SEDUCTRESS IN OPERA JEAN STAROBINSKI TRANSLATED BY C. JON DELOCU Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. Y~ ._--__ We often look to the theater for spectacle and wonder, but in op-era, we find pure enchantment. ...
Fascism, Vulnerability, and the Escape from Freedom: Readings to Repair Democracy, 2022
This Introduction presents the genesis and argument of my book (published by Punctum Books in Nov... more This Introduction presents the genesis and argument of my book (published by Punctum Books in November 2022); namely that in times of high vulnerability many people do not experience freedom as a positive opportunity and are tempted to solve problems of insecurity and status loss through far-right exclusionary populism; i.e., fascism or fascistic authoritarianism.
ELAD-SILDA (Études de Linguistique et d’Analyse des Discours / Studies in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis), 2023
This talk turned paper reviews the discourse of "conspiracism" and the tactics of conspiracy theo... more This talk turned paper reviews the discourse of "conspiracism" and the tactics of conspiracy theory strategists in the US from Joe McCarthy and the John Birch Society to Trump and Tucker Carlson and their many followers. This paper angles off the work of Hofstadter, Robert Goldberg, and Keith Payne with side comments on major works by Arthur Miller and Hannah Arendt.
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