Gordon Postmodernism and the Enlightenment

New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-136-69621-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 236 Seiten

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, Daniel

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

Daniel GordonIntoduction: Postmodernism and the French Enlightment

Malick W. GhachemMontesquieu in the Carribean: The Colonial Enlightment betweenCode Noir and Code Civil

Arthur GoldhammerMan in the Mirrir: Language, the Enlightenment and the Postmodern

Daniel RosenbergAn Eighteenth-Century Time Machine: The Encyclopediaof Denis Diderot

Elena RussoVirtuous Economies: Modernity and Noble Exepndure form Montesquieu to Caillois

Ronald SchechterRationalizing the Enlightenment: Postmodernism and the Theories of Anti-Semitism

Sophia RosenfeldWriting the History of Censorship in the Age of Enlightenment

Alessa JohnsReproducing Utopia: Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont's The New Clarrisa

Johnson Kent WriteThe Pre-Postmodernism of Carl Becker

Louis MillerFoucault, Nietzsche, Enlightenment: Some Historical Considerations

Daniel GordonOn the Supposed Obsolescence of the French Enlightenment

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.