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.