Postmodernism and the Enlightenment
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Alessa Johns
Angelika Bammer
anti-Semitism studies
Arthur Goldhammer
authorship theory
beaumont
Blind Philosopher
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Civil Society
Colonial Code
Colonial Enlightenment
colonial legal systems
Constitutive Censorship
critical theory
Daniel Rosenberg
De Man's Account
De Man’s Account
Du Coudray
eighteenth
Eighteenth Century Philosophers
Eighteenth Century Thought
Elena Russo
empirical skepticism
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Good Life
Heavenly City
Hobbes's Man
Hobbes’s Man
Johnson Kent Wright
late
Late Twentieth Century Historians
leprince
Leprince De Beaumont
Local Knowledge
Louis Miller
Malick W. Ghachem
Nietzsche's Career
Nietzsche's Development
postmodern critique of Enlightenment thought
Punitive Censorship
revolution
Ronald Schechter
Sophia Rosenfeld
Storrs Lectures
Structural Censorship
thinkers
thought
twentieth
Uncanny Premonition
Untimely Meditations
utopian philosophy
Women's Utopianism
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780415927970
- Weight: 440g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 04 Dec 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
