Pierre Saint-Amand

"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2012" Pierre Saint-Amand is the Francis Wayland Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His books include The Laws of Hostility: Politics, Violence, and the Enlightenment. We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about...