Darrin McMahon
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| - | In his book "[[Enemies of the Enlightenment]]" (2001), historian [[Darrin McMahon]] extends the Counter-Enlightenment both back to pre-Revolutionary France and down to the level of '[[Grub Street]]', thereby marking a major advance on Berlin's intellectual and Germanocentric view. McMahon focuses on the early enemies of the Enlightenment in France, unearthing a long-forgotten 'Grub Street' literature in the late-eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries aimed at the philosophes. He delves into the obscure and at times unseemly world of the 'low Counter-Enlightenment' that attacked the encyclopedistes and fought an often dirty battle to prevent the dissemination of Enlightenment ideas in the second half of the century. A great many of these early opponents of the Enlightenment attacked it for undermining religion and the social and political order. This later became a major theme of conservative criticism of the Enlightenment after the French Revolution appeared to vindicate the warnings of the anti-philosophes in the decades prior to 1789. | + | Dr. '''Darrin M. McMahon''' is the Ben Weider Professor of History at [[Florida State University]]. He is the author of ''Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity'' (Oxford University Press, 2001), and ''Happiness: A History'' (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006), which has been, or is being, translated into nine foreign languages. Dr. McMahon is also the editor, with Florence Lotterie, of ''Les Lumières européennes dans leurs relations avec les autres grandes cultures et religions du XVIIIe siècle'' (Honoré Champion, 2002). His writings have appeared in the ''Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Daedalus'', and the ''Wilson Quarterly'', and his work has been featured on CBS's "Sunday Morning," the BBC, the CBC, and numerous National Public Radio programs, including "The Diane Rehm Show," "To the Best of Our Knowledge," "On Point," "The Leonard Lopate Show" and "Forum With Michael Krasny." Dr. McMahon is a regular contributor to the ''New Republic's'' academic blog, the Open University, and a long-time associate of Pacem Productions, a Los Angeles based production company specializing in documentary and educational film for television. |
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Dr. Darrin M. McMahon is the Ben Weider Professor of History at Florida State University. He is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001), and Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006), which has been, or is being, translated into nine foreign languages. Dr. McMahon is also the editor, with Florence Lotterie, of Les Lumières européennes dans leurs relations avec les autres grandes cultures et religions du XVIIIe siècle (Honoré Champion, 2002). His writings have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the New York Times Book Review, The Boston Globe, Daedalus, and the Wilson Quarterly, and his work has been featured on CBS's "Sunday Morning," the BBC, the CBC, and numerous National Public Radio programs, including "The Diane Rehm Show," "To the Best of Our Knowledge," "On Point," "The Leonard Lopate Show" and "Forum With Michael Krasny." Dr. McMahon is a regular contributor to the New Republic's academic blog, the Open University, and a long-time associate of Pacem Productions, a Los Angeles based production company specializing in documentary and educational film for television.
