Postmodernism and the Enlightenment : new perspectives in eighteenth-century French intellectual history - Gordon, Daniel, 1961- (New York : Routledge, 2001)
Introduction: Postmodernism and the French Enlightenment / Daniel Gordon -- Montesquieu in the Caribbean: The Colonial Enlightenment Between Code Noir and Code Civil / Malick W. Ghachem -- Man in the Mirror: Language, the Enlightenment, and the Postmodern / Arthur Goldhammer -- An Eighteenth-Century Time Machine: The Encyclopedia of Denis Diderot / Daniel Rosenberg -- Virtuous Economies: Modernity and Noble Expenditure from Montesquieu to Caillois / Elena Russo -- Rationalizing the Enlightenment: Postmodernism and Theories of Anti-Semitism / Ronald Schechter -- Writing the History of Censorship in the Age of Enlightenment / Sophia Rosenfied -- Reproducing Utopia: Jeanne-Marie Leprince De Beaumont's the New Clarissa / Alessa Johns -- The Pre-Postmodernism of Carl Becker / Johnson Kent Wright -- Foucault, Nietzsche, Enlightenment: Some Historical Considerations / Louis Miller -- On the Supposed Obsolescence of the French Enlightenment / Daniel Gordon.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Enlightenment -- France; Postmodernism; France -- Intellectual life; France -- Civilization -- 18th century