Early Modern Philosophy (EMP)
December 14, 1999
EMP in a multidisciplinary context
by ANDREW CARPENTER
"Projects and Projectors: Inventions of the 'Enlightenment'" was the
theme of the 23rd annual conference of the Northeast American Society
for Eighteenth-Century Studies held December 9-12, 1999, at the
University of New Hampshire (UNH). Approximately 300 national and
international scholars of early modern history, literature, art,
science, and philosophy discussed many topics that located early
modern philosophy (EMP) within an exhilarating multidisciplinary
context. The topics ranged from "Goethe's Projects" and "The
Experimental Method in the Moral Sciences" to "The Invention of
Pornography," "Inventions of Sexualities," and "The Invention of
Scandal."
The EMP highlight of the conference was due to James Schmidt,
interdisciplinary scholar at Boston University and author of the
esteemed anthology What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth-Century Questions
and Twentieth-Century Answers (University of California, 1996), who
organized three superb panels devoted to defining and assessing the
"enlightenment project."
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