Daniel Brewer
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Department of French and Italian |
Statement of Interests
Professor Brewer's areas of teaching and research include the literature and culture of Ancien Régime France, as well as contemporary literary and cultural theory. He has published on such topics as theories of knowledge and the critique of institutions, visual representation and art criticism, the project of Enlightenment, literary history and social formation, and the figure of the intellectual. His first book, The Discourse of Enlightenment, focuses on Diderot and his art of philosophizing. His second book examines the cultural history of Enlightenment in 18th- through 20th-century writing, institutions, and critical theory. He served as founding Director of the University of Minnesota Humanities Institute from 1998-2001.
Complete CVPublications
Books
The Enlightenment Past: Reconstructing Eighteenth-Century French Thought (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2007).
Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading, eds. Daniel Brewer and Julie Candler Hayes (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2002:05).
The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France: Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing (Cambridge, 1993).
Selected Articles
"Constructing Philosophers," in Using the Encyclopédie: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Reading, eds. Daniel Brewer and Julie Candler Hayes (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century, 2002:05), pp. 21-35.
"Thinking History Through Montesquieu," in Montesquieu and the Spirit of Modernity, eds. Patrick Coleman and David Carrithers, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (2002).
"Political Culture and Literary History: La Harpe's Lycée," Modern Language Quarterly, 52:2 (1997), 1-22.
"The French Intellectual, History, and the Reproduction of Culture," L'Esprit Créateur, 37:2 (1997), 16-33.
"1751: Ordering Knowledge; Denis Diderot et Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Publish the First Volume of the Encyclopédie," in A New History of French Literature (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1989), pp. 447-55.
"The Work of the Image: The Plates of the Encyclopédie," Stanford French Review, 8:2-3 (Fall 1984): 229-44.
"Portraying Diderot," in Diderot: Digression and Dispersion, eds. Jack Undank and Herbert Josephs (Lexington : French Forum, 1984), pp. 44-59.
"Diderot and the Image of the Other (Woman)," L'Esprit Créateur, 14:1 (Spring 1984), pp. 53-65.