Dan Edelstein is the William H. Bonsall Professor of French, and professor of political science and history (by courtesy) at Stanford University. He is the author of The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution, The Enlightenment: A Genealogy, and On the Spirit of Rights. He is currently working on an intellectual history of revolution, tentatively titled The Revolution Next Time.
We can learn from the outdated Western Civ model, even as we transcend it.