Contributors

joris van eijnatten is professor of cultural history, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He has written on both early modern and modern intellectual and religious history, including such topics as liberty and toleration, freedom of the press, irenicism, and the Dutch poet and thinker Willem Bilderdijk (1756–1831).

javier fernández sebastián is professor of the history of political thought at the Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao). His publications include L’avènement de l’opinion publique. Europe et Amérique XVIIIe–XIXe siècles and Diccionario político y social del siglo XX español. He currently coordinates two projects: a collection of classical texts on political thought in the Basque country; and Iberconceptos, a conceptual comparative history of the Ibero-American world.

paula sutter fichtner is professor emerita of history, Brooklyn College, the City University of New York. She is a specialist in the history of the Habsburg monarchy and early modern Europe. Most recently she is the author of Terror and Toleration: The Habsburg Empire Confronts Islam, 1526–1850. A revised edition of her Historical Dictionary of Austria appeared in 2009.

jonathan i. israel is professor of modern history, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. He has worked extensively on the Dutch Golden Age and is currently working on an outline survey of the European Enlightenment.

john christian laursen is professor of political science, University of California, Riverside. He is the author or editor of more than a dozen books and scores of articles and chapters, mostly on the implications of skepticism and cynicism for political thought, and on issues concerning toleration, cosmopolitanism, and freedom of the press.

lee morrissey is professor and chair of the Department of English, Clemson University. He is the author of The Constitution of Literature: Literacy, Democracy, and Early English Literary Criticism and From the Temple to the Castle: An Architectural History of British Literature, 1660–1760. His work focuses on relationships between literature and intellectual history, political philosophy, and the arts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

elizabeth powers was chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture from 2003 to 2010. She is a scholar of German literature and is currently writing a study of Goethe’s concept of world literature.

helena rosenblatt is professor of history at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, the City University of New York. Her field of interest is eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European intellectual history. The author of Rousseau and Geneva and Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion, she is also the editor of the Cambridge Companion to Constant.

douglas smith is a resident scholar at the University of Washington’s Jackson School of International Studies. He is the author of three books on eighteenth-century Russia, including The Pearl: A True Tale of Forbidden Love in Catherine the Great’s Russia.