Diderot Studies
Author: Diana Guiragossian
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9782600004589
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Author: Diana Guiragossian
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9782600004589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Otis Fellows
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1949
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 9782600039369
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Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published:
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9782600039352
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 790
ISBN-13: 9780521867436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis two-volume set presents a comprehensive and up-to-date history of eighteenth-century philosophy. The subject is treated systematically by topic, not by individual thinker, school, or movement, thus enabling a much more historically nuanced picture of the period to be painted.
Author: Antony Strugnell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9401024472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKI t is only relatively recently that serious attempts have been made to rescue Diderot's political writings from obscurity and neglect, and ascribe to the ideas expressed therein their due place in the panoply of his intellectual and artistic achievements. This has been largely made possible by the transference of the Fonds Vandeul from Diderot's descendants to the Bibliotheque Nationale in 1954. This important collection of manuscripts and papers, to which scholars have previously had very inadequate access, contains the bulk of the political writings, most of which had either never been published, or were only obtainable in badly prepared or rare editions. In recent years, however, excellent critical editions of the most impor tant political texts have appeared; the Textes Politiques edited by Yves Benot, and the Oeuvres Politiques and the Memoires pour Catherine II edited by Paul Verniere are all notable contributions. Meanwhile Jacques Proust has written a major thesis on Diderot et l'Encyclopedie which con tains a detailed study of Diderot's political ideas during the years he de voted to the construction of that great intellectual monument. Most re cently Yves Benot has published a general work with an important study of Diderot's hostility to European colonial policies, Diderot, de l'atheisme a l'anticolonialisme. Furthermore, Diderot's contributions to the three editions of Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes have been identified with virtual certainty by Michele Duchet and Hans Wolpe, thereby opening up a further valuable source for his political ideas.
Author: Mary Efrosini Gregory
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0415955513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Andrew S. Curran
Publisher: Other Press, LLC
Published: 2019-01-15
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1590516702
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBest 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.
Author: Lester G. Crocker
Publisher:
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Louise Crowther
Publisher: MHRA
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1906540888
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRenowned as the chief challenger of traditional views of morality, man's freedom, and religion from 1650-1750, Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) spread alarm and confusion throughout Europe through his writings. Theologians and rulers desperately sought to ban the spread of Spinozist ideas, and, in the post-Spinozist climate, eighteenth- century thinkers, often exasperated and perplexed, attempted to cope with the fallout from this intellectual explosion. The philosophical radicalism of Denis Diderot (1713-84), a French philosophe, and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), a German philosopher, well exemplifies the post-Spinozist mentality that permeated eighteenth-century thinking. As they grapple with the loss of intellectual, moral, and theological certainties, Diderot and Lessing re-work post-Spinozist ideas and in many instances elucidate even more radical ideas than Spinoza himself had envisaged.
Author: Jerome Schwartz
Publisher: Librairie Droz
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9782600034777
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