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Postmodernism and the Enlightenment : new perspectives in eighteenth-century French intellectual history / edited by Daniel Gordon. - New York : Routledge, 2001. - vi, 227 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Postmodernism and the French Enlightenment / Montesquieu in the Caribbean: The Colonial Enlightenment Between Code Noir and Code Civil / Man in the Mirror: Language, the Enlightenment, and the Postmodern / An Eighteenth-Century Time Machine: The Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot / Virtuous Economies: Modernity and Noble Expenditure from Montesquieu to Caillois / Rationalizing the Enlightenment: Postmodernism and Theories of Anti-Semitism / Writing the History of Censorship in the Age of Enlightenment / Reproducing Utopia: Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont's the New Clarissa / The Pre-Postmodernism of Carl Becker / Foucault, Nietzsche, Enlightenment: Some Historical Considerations / On the Supposed Obsolescence of the French Enlightenment / Daniel Gordon -- Malick W. Ghachem -- Arthur Goldhammer -- Daniel Rosenberg -- Elena Russo -- Ronald Schechter -- Sophia Rosenfied -- Alessa Johns -- Johnson Kent Wright -- Louis Miller -- Daniel Gordon.

041592796X 0415927978 (pbk.)


Enlightenment--France.
Postmodernism.


France--Intellectual life.
France--Civilization--18th century.

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