Postmodernism and the Enlightenment

New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History
Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-92796-3
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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;

Über Autor(innen)

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