Anton Matytsin (History, Kenyon)
Speakers): Anton Matytsin
This week we will discuss a draft of Prof. Matytsin’s “Whose Light Is It Anyway? Enlightenment Bitterly Contested,” a chapter in the forthcoming volume Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality, co-edited by Anton Matytsin and Dan Edelstein.
To receive a copy of the paper in advance of the workshop, please email Derek Vanderpool at dvander [at] stanford.edu (dvander[at]stanford[dot]edu).
Anton Matytsin is Assistant Professor of History at Kenyon College focusing on French intellectual history in the long eighteenth century. His first book project, The Specter of Skepticism and the Sources of Certainty in the Age of Enlightenment, 1697-1772, is currently under review with Johns Hopkins University Press. Prof. Matytsin is also the co-editor two forthcoming volumes: The Age of Skepticism with Jeffrey Burson and Let There Be Enlightenment: The Religious and Mystical Sources of Rationality with Dan Edelstein. He is currently working on a new monograph exploring the history of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.