Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment
Philosopher and translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures within the European Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries Voltaire, Rousseau, Schiller, Kant, or Hume, is characterized by a clearly centrifugal dynamic?Taking Hegel's fascinated irritation with Diderot's work as a starting point, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores the question of this extraordinary intellectual's place in the legacy of the eighteenth century. While Diderot shared most of the concerns typically attributed to his time,…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-5036-1525-0
- EAN: 9781503615250
- Produktnummer: 34511608
- Verlag: Stanford Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 304 S.
Über den Autor
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. His books written in English include In 1926 (1998), Production of Presence (Stanford, 2004), In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006), Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung (Stanford, 2012), After 1945 (Stanford, 2013), and Our Broad Present (2014).
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