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Literary theorist and emeritus university professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Leo Bersani (1931–2022) was an American university teacher and philologist. He worked at Wellesley College, Rutgers University, and the University of California, Berkeley. His field of work included gender studies. He spoke and wrote in English.

Bersani was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. He was also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was born in The Bronx and died in Peoria.

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Person · Open Library

Works
38

Top works

  • Isolation and action
  • Baudelaire and Freud
  • A future for Astyanax
  • Intimacies (16pt Large Print Edition)
  • Théorie et violence

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Italy
Active from
1970-10-01
popsinger-songwriter

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Random Forests

    · 2001 · cited 115,935x

  2. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,174x

  3. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,961x

  4. Astropy: A community Python package for astronomy

    · 2013 · cited 13,559x

  5. Bagging predictors

    · 1996 · cited 13,155x

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Quotes

  • In giving up an instinctive satisfaction, we simultaneously (1) internalize the authority presumably inhibiting the instinct, (2) increase our sense of guilt by intensifying our desire for satisfaction, (3) submit the ego to the fury of an aggressiveness originally intended for the inhibiting external authority.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Leo
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
The Bronx
Place of death
Peoria
Languages spoken
English language
Field of work
gender studies
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date of birth
1931-04-16
date of death
2022-02-20
Sources (1)

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