Post by John Burton (@drjohnburton) on Fri, 05 Dec 14 16:02:40 +0000 View Full Post Tearing down the divisions that we once worked so hard to establish: "No matter how little or how much we may like it, our belief in the "early modern" bears the mark of every one of these Benthamite reforms. It insists on dividing history into periods, and then tries to join two historical periods together."http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=%2Fjournals%2Fjournal_for_early_modern_cultural_studies%2Fv014%2F14.1.menon.html