Charly Coleman, assistant professor of History at Columbia University, will present his book, an innovate inquiry into secular and religious conceptions of the self and self-sacrifice in Enlightenment France. Three scholars will engage with his arguments: Lucien Nouis (French, NYU), Helena Rosenblatt (History, CUNY Graduate Center), and John Shovlin (History, NYU). Stéphane Gerson (French and French Studies, NYU, and chair of the Wylie Prize Commitee) will moderate.
An Anti-Individualist History of the French Enlightenment (Stanford University Press, 2014)
