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Alan Charles Kors (born July 18, 1943) is an American historian who is the Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught the intellectual history of the 17th and 18th centuries. He has received both the Lindback Foundation Award and the Ira Abrams Memorial Award for distinguished college ...
Alan Charles Kors (B.A., Princeton; M.A. and Ph.D., Harvard) specializes in European intellectual history of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with a general interest in the deep intellectual transformation of European thought and a special research interest in the relationships between orthodox and heterodox thought in France after 1650.
Learn about the life and work of Alan Charles Kors, a renowned intellectual historian and professor at the University of Pennsylvania. Explore his courses on the Enlightenment, Voltaire, and the modern mind.
KORS, Alan Charles 1943- PERSONAL: Born July 18, 1943, in Jersey City, NJ; son of Samuel (a realtor) and Belle (a teacher; maiden name, Silber) Kors; married Erika Wallace (an editor), May 30, 1975; children: Samantha, Brian. Education: Princeton University, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1964; Harvard University, M.A., 1965, Ph.D., 1968.
Mar 28, 2016 · Alan Charles Kors, Voltaire: The Mind of the Enlightenment, The Teaching Company (2000). TEACHING: 1968-73: Assistant Professor of History, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Leading intellectual historian Alan Charles Kors shares with you his view of Voltaire as one of the most intriguing, influential, and elusive thinkers of the modern world. Focusing on the deepest, most enduring aspects of Voltaire's work and thought, but never losing sight of the colorful, fascinating man himself, Professor...
Alan KORS | Henry Charles Lea Professor Emeritus of History | Doctor of Philosophy | University of Pennsylvania, PA | UP | Department of History | Research profile. About. 51. Publications....
