"Religion and Politics: What's Secular about Enlightenment?"
A roundtable discussion with author Edouard Valdman

Tuesday, May 16
5:30 pm: Wine & cheese
6:00 - 8:00 pm: Seminar
Vertical Campus, 55 Lexington Avenue, Room 14-270

This session is part of the ongoing series The European Mind in America,
and is influenced by recent anniversaries of the political philosophers
Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, and Raymond Aron.

Edouard Valdman is the author of Dieu n'est pas mort: Le malentendu des
Lumieres (God Is Not Dead: The Misunderstanding of the Enlightenment) and
Jews and Money: Towards a Metaphysics of Money. Trained as a lawyer, he
practiced law in Paris for many years before turning fulltime to writing.
In addition to his works of philosophy and criticism, he has published
several books of poetry and won the Prix du Palais Litteraire in 1990. He
lives in New York and contributes regularly to the Paris newspaper Le
Figaro.

Presented by the U.S.-Europe Seminar at Baruch College and sponsored by
the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences.

For more information, please call 646-312-3921.
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