Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, he is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (2006), and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (2013). McMahon is currently co-editor at the journal Modern Intellectual History and is at work on a history of ideas of equality.

In this stimulating work, 10 contemporary historians exchange views on the current state of their discipline...Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

• Series Editor's Foreword by James O. PawelskiIntroduction by Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 1: "History, the Humanities, and the Human" D. Graham Burnett Chapter 2: "The Power of a Well-Told History" Maya Jasanoff Chapter 3: "In Defense of Presentism" David Armitage Chapter 4: "Wellbeing and a Usable Past: The Role of Historical Diagnosis" Peter N. Stearns Chapter 5: "Living the Good Life, Even Without Trying: The Strange Case of Consistent Luckiness in Aristotle" Peter T. Struck Chapter 6: "The Historical Sublime" Dan Edelstein Chapter 7: "Flourishing with Herodotus" Suzanne Marchand Chapter 8: "De Beata Historia: On History and Human Flourishing" Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 9: ""Beauty Is Universal"": Virtue, Aesthetics, Emotion, and Race in James Logan's Atlantic Moral Sense Philosophy" Nicole Eustace Chapter 10: "Toward a History of Black Happiness: Or, What Can African American History Tell Us about the Cultivation of Well-Being?" Mia Bay

Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, he is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (2006), and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (2013). McMahon is currently co-editor at the journal Modern Intellectual History and is at work on a history of ideas of equality.

In this stimulating work, 10 contemporary historians exchange views on the current state of their discipline...Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

• Series Editor's Foreword by James O. PawelskiIntroduction by Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 1: "History, the Humanities, and the Human" D. Graham Burnett Chapter 2: "The Power of a Well-Told History" Maya Jasanoff Chapter 3: "In Defense of Presentism" David Armitage Chapter 4: "Wellbeing and a Usable Past: The Role of Historical Diagnosis" Peter N. Stearns Chapter 5: "Living the Good Life, Even Without Trying: The Strange Case of Consistent Luckiness in Aristotle" Peter T. Struck Chapter 6: "The Historical Sublime" Dan Edelstein Chapter 7: "Flourishing with Herodotus" Suzanne Marchand Chapter 8: "De Beata Historia: On History and Human Flourishing" Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 9: ""Beauty Is Universal"": Virtue, Aesthetics, Emotion, and Race in James Logan's Atlantic Moral Sense Philosophy" Nicole Eustace Chapter 10: "Toward a History of Black Happiness: Or, What Can African American History Tell Us about the Cultivation of Well-Being?" Mia Bay

Darrin M. McMahon is the Mary Brinsmead Wheelock Professor of History at Dartmouth College. Educated at the University of California, Berkeley and Yale, he is the author of Enemies of the Enlightenment: The French Counter-Enlightenment and the Making of Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2001); Happiness: A History (2006), and Divine Fury: A History of Genius (2013). McMahon is currently co-editor at the journal Modern Intellectual History and is at work on a history of ideas of equality.

In this stimulating work, 10 contemporary historians exchange views on the current state of their discipline...Recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty.

• Series Editor's Foreword by James O. PawelskiIntroduction by Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 1: "History, the Humanities, and the Human" D. Graham Burnett Chapter 2: "The Power of a Well-Told History" Maya Jasanoff Chapter 3: "In Defense of Presentism" David Armitage Chapter 4: "Wellbeing and a Usable Past: The Role of Historical Diagnosis" Peter N. Stearns Chapter 5: "Living the Good Life, Even Without Trying: The Strange Case of Consistent Luckiness in Aristotle" Peter T. Struck Chapter 6: "The Historical Sublime" Dan Edelstein Chapter 7: "Flourishing with Herodotus" Suzanne Marchand Chapter 8: "De Beata Historia: On History and Human Flourishing" Darrin M. McMahon Chapter 9: ""Beauty Is Universal"": Virtue, Aesthetics, Emotion, and Race in James Logan's Atlantic Moral Sense Philosophy" Nicole Eustace Chapter 10: "Toward a History of Black Happiness: Or, What Can African American History Tell Us about the Cultivation of Well-Being?" Mia Bay