Andrew S. Curran
AUTHOR

Andrew S. Curran

Tap the gear icon above to manage new release emails.
Andrew Curran (Wesleyan University / William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities) is a writer-scholar fascinated by the French eighteenth century. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Paris Review, The Wall Street Journal, and El Pais. He is the editor, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., of Who is Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter in the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race (Harvard, 2022), and the author of four books: Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely (Other Press, 2019) The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment (2013), and Sublime Disorder, Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe (2001). His latest book is Biography of a Dangerous Idea: A New History of Race from Louis XIV to Thomas Jefferson (The Race Makers in its UK edition).
Read more Read less
Not an Audible member?
From £5.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.
Start your free 30-day trial

Best Sellers

Product list
  • Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely cover art
    Preview

    £15.26 or free with trial. Auto-renews at £5.99/month after trial. See eligibility.

    Try Standard free

Are you an author?

Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography.
Visit Amazon Author Central