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almahu_9947414865702882
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511975202 (ebook)
Content:
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.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction /
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Diderot the Philosophe:
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Diderot and the ancients /
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Diderot's earlier philosophical writings /
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The Encyclopédie: innovation and legacy /
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Diderot, Rousseau and the art of craft /
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Diderot's anti-colonialism: a problematic notion /
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Diderot's letters to Sophie Volland /
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Novels:
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Les Bijoux indiscrets: transition or translation? /
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Jacques le fataliste et son maître: finding myself in the work of another /
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La Religieuse: Diderot's 'Richardsonian' novel /
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Dialogues:
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Eyes wide shut: Le Rêve de d'Alembert /
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Logics of the human in the Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville /
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Plays and Dramatic Theory:
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Diderot and Olympe de Gouges convert the tyrand and transform the family /
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Diderot and Destouches: Le Philosophe marié in Est-il-bon? Est-il méchant? /
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Music, Performance, Aesthetics:
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Diderot's voice(s): music and reform, from the Querelle des Bouffons to Le Neveu de Rameau /
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Diderot and the aesthetics of the Libretto /
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Ekphrasis and related issues in Diderot's Salons /
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521769563
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511975202
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