"The subject of this book is the relationship between the enormous, extraordinary, and sometimes baffling body of Goya's work, and the interconnected issues of modernity, in art, the Enlightenment, and the project of critique"--

Anthony J. Cascardi is the Sidney and Margaret Ancker Distinguished Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, including The Consequences of Enlightenment; Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics; The Subject of Modernity; and The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy.