A particularly noteworthy example is your statement that my “critique of postmodernism is used to sanction an uncritical defense of the Enlightenment.” The passage in my first lecture to which ...

It is not merely a linear trajectory emanating from present conditions. In philosophy, we find a wide array of definitions for the future—ranging from the Enlightenment’s linear-progress viewpoint ...

Modern European literature (especially poetry), modernity and the postmodern, photography and painting, reception of the Enlightenment in the 19th and 20th centuries, lyric poetry and elegy, ...