Darrin M. McMahon

McMahon was educated at the University of California,
Berkeley and Yale University, where he received his PhD in
1997. He is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The
French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity
(New York: Oxford, 2001), and the editor, with Florence
Lotterie, of Les Lumières européennes dans leurs relations
avec les autres grandes cultures et religions du XVIIIe
siècle (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2002). In addition, McMahon
has written over twenty articles on various aspects of
European history, culture, and politics for such
publications as the Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe,
and Daedalus. His current research project, Happiness: A
History, a study of ideas of happiness in Western thought,
will be published in 2004 by Grove/Atlantic Press.

Before coming to FSU, Professor McMahon held post-doctoral
fellowships at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at
Columbia University, the Remarque Institute at New York
University, the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen
in Vienna, and also taught history at Yale University and
the University of Rouen, France. A term member of the
Council on Foreign Relations, McMahon is a regular
contributor to Correspondence: An International Review of
Culture and Society, and a long-time associate of Pacem
Productions, a Los Angeles based production company
specializing in documentary and educational film for television.