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Charles W. Morris on Empiricism and the Counter-Enlightenment (Fabricating the “Counter-Enlightenment” Part IV)

Posted on January 7, 2014 by James Schmidt

The month-long hiatus since my last post can, in part, be attributed to the flood of papers that arrived in the wake of my discussion of English uses of the term “counter-Enlightenment” between 1908 and 1942 and the ensuing holiday … Continue reading →

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Ironic Enlightenment? Voltaire, Fussell, and the Neverending End of the Age of Irony

Posted on September 30, 2013 by James Schmidt

Readers of this blog may have noted a certain slackening of activity. The explanation is simple enough: September arrived and, with it, the opening of the fall term (or, as one of my more jaded friends likes to call it, … Continue reading →

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Whose Buttock? Which Enlightenment? – Thoughts on Anthony Pagden’s The Enlightenment and Why it Still Matters

Posted on June 12, 2013 by James Schmidt

Anthony Pagden’s The Enlightenment and Why It Still Matters (New York: Random House, 2013) is perhaps the most ambitious account of the period published by a major commercial press since Peter Gay’s two-volume survey from the 1960s. Like Gay, Pagden’s … Continue reading →

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Jefferson, an Epicurean? (Presidents’ Day Special, Part 1)

Posted on February 17, 2013 by James Schmidt

Readers outside the United States are likely not aware that, while tomorrow is officially “Washington’s Birthday” (a national holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February, a day on which George Washington’s actual birthday — February 22 (new style) — … Continue reading →

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