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New Essays on Diderot
Author | : James Fowler |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781139500555 |
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The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth.
Diderot Studies
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 2600039325 |
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Diderot Political Writings
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521369118 |
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Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. His political writings cover the period from the first volume of the Encyclopedie (1751), of which he was principal editor, to the third edition of Raynal's Histoire des Deux Indes (1780), one of the most widely read books of the pre-revolutionary period. This volume contains the most important of Diderot's articles for the Encyclopedie, a substantial number of his contributions to the Histoire, the complete texts of his Supplement au Voyage de Bougainville, one of his most visionary works, and his Observations sur le Nakaz, a precise and detailed political work translated here into English for the first time. The editors' introduction sets these works in their context and shows the underlying coherence of Diderot's thought. A chronology of events and a bibliography are included as further aids to the reader.
Diderot s Thoughts on Art and Style with Some of His Shorter Essays
Author | : Denis Diderot,Beatrix Lucia Catherine (Egerton). Tollemache |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : PSU:000004297338 |
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Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Author | : Andrew S. Curran |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781635420395 |
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Best Book of the Year – Kirkus Reviews A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world’s first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity–for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot’s most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire. In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot’s tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.
Diderot s Thoughts on Art and Style
Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Arts |
ISBN | : UOM:39015046407709 |
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Diderot A Miscellany of Essays and Studies on Diderot and the Encyclop die Together with the Text of Several Unpublished Documents Relating to Diderot With Illustrations Including Portraits and Facsimiles
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 1951 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:315897041 |
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Essays on the Encyclop die of Diderot and D Alembert
Author | : John Lough |
Publsiher | : London ; New York [etc.] : Oxford U.P. |
Total Pages | : 594 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : Encyclopédie |
ISBN | : UVA:X000213573 |
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