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Georges Didi-Huberman | |
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Born | Saint-Étienne, France | 13 June 1953
Nationality | French |
Occupation(s) | Philosopher, art historian |
Georges Didi-Huberman FBA (born 13 June 1953) is a French philosopher and art historian.
Georges Didi-Huberman was born on 13 June 1953 in Saint-Étienne, into a Sephardic family from Tunisia on his father's side and Ashkenazi polish heritage on his mother's side. [1] His sister is the comedian Évelyne Didi. He was a scholar at the French Academy in Rome (Villa Medici) and resident in the Berenson Foundation of Villa I Tatti in Florence. He teaches at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, where he has been a lecturer since 1990.
He is the 2015 recipient of the Adorno Prize.
In July 2017, Didi-Huberman was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [2]
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