Postmodernism and the Enlightenment (eBook, PDF)

New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History
Redaktion: Gordon, Daniel

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Why is postmodernist discourse so biased against the Enlightenment? Indeed, postmodern theory challenges the validity of the rational basis of modern historical scholarship and the Enlightenment itself. Rather than avoiding this conflict, the contributors to this vibrant collection return to the philosophical roots of the Enlightenment, and do not hesitate to look at them through a postmodernist lens, engaging issues like anti-Semitism, Utopianism, colonial legal codes, and ideas of authorship. Dismissing the notion that the two camps are ideologically opposed and thus incompatible, these essays demonstrate an exciting new scholarship that confidently mixes the empiricism of Enlightenment thought with a strong postmodernist skepticism, painting a subtler and richer historical canvas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136696213
• Artikelnr.: 40344010

Autorenporträt

Daniel Gordon is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He is author of Citizens without Sovereignty: Equality and Sociability inFrench Thought, 1670-1789 and translator and editor of Bedford/St. Martin's recent edition of Candide. He lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Daniel Gordon; Chapter 1 Montesquieu in the Caribbean
Malick W. Ghachem; Chapter 2 Man in the Mirror
Arthur Goldhammer; Chapter 3 An Eighteenth-Century Time Machine
Daniel Rosenberg; Chapter 4 Virtuous Economies
Elena Russo; Chapter 5 Rationalizing the Enlightenment
Ronald Schechter; Chapter 6 Writing the History of Censorship in the Age of Enlightenment
Sophia Rosenfeld; Chapter 7 Reproducing Utopia
Alessa Johns; Chapter 8 The Pre-Postmodernism of Carl Becker
Johnson Kent Wright; Chapter 9 Foucault
Nietzsche
Enlightenment
Louis Miller; Chapter 10 On the Supposed Obsolescence of the French Enlightenment
Daniel Gordon;