Join Visiting Fellow David Bell on April 16th for The End of Enlightenment, both online and in person at the American Library in Paris.
Wednesday April 16 @ 19 h 30 – 20 h 30, or 1:30-2:30 pm EDT.
In this special lecture, Historian David Bell traces the idea of progress to its Enlightenment roots and its evolution to the present.
David A. Bell is the Sidney and Ruth Lapidus Professor in the Department of History at Princeton where he recently served as director of Princeton’s Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Born in New York in 1961, he was educated at Harvard and the École Normale Supérieure in Paris before completing his doctorate at Princeton in 1991. Before returning to Princeton in 2010 he taught at Yale and Johns Hopkins, where he also served as Dean of Faculty. A specialist in the history of France, he is the author of seven books, including The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800, The First Total War: Napoleon’s Europe and the Birth of Warfare as We Know It, and most recently Men on Horseback: The Power of Charisma in the Age of Revolution.