Daniel (Hrsg.) Gordon

Postmodernism and the Enlightenment

New Perspectives in Eighteenth-Century French Intellectual History

Buch

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 co… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-415-92796-3
EAN: 9780415927963
Produktnummer: 23362131
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
Seitenangabe: 236 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.0 cm 567 g
Gewicht: 567
Sonstiges: Undergraduate

Über den Autor

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.