Darrin McMahon
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Darrin M. McMahon (born 1965) is a historian, author, public speaker, and currently a professor of history at Dartmouth College, where he is Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History. Prior to joining the Dartmouth Faculty, he was Ben Weider Professor and distinguished research professor at Florida State University.[1]
Trained as a historian of France, his first book Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity dealt with opposition within France to the Enlightenment legacy in the 18th and 19th centuries.[2] He is also the author of Happiness: A History (Atlantic Monthly Books, 2006),[3] and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (Basic Books, 2013).[4]
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- ^ "Darrin McMahon". People. Dartmouth History Department. 16 July 2014.
- ^ Reviews of Enemies of the Enlightenment: JSTOR 10.1086/380254; JSTOR 25479657; JSTOR 24452762; JSTOR 3790149; JSTOR 10.1086/532806; JSTOR 41916729; JSTOR 24427542; JSTOR 3595703; doi:10.1016/j.orbis.2003.10.011; doi:10.1080/03612759.2002.10526044; doi:10.11588/fr.2005.2.62154
- ^ Reviews of Happiness: A History: JSTOR 25096633; JSTOR 26061497; doi:10.1017/S0360966900004199
- ^ Reviews of Divine Fury: JSTOR 10.1086/682847; JSTOR 43696023; doi:10.1111/hisn.12062_73
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