Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
Best Book of the Year - Kirkus ReviewsA 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 In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racia…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-59051-672-0
- EAN: 9781590516720
- Produktnummer: 27214670
- Verlag: Other Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 45'896 KB
Über den Autor
Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. The author of two previous books, Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe and The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, Curran is a Fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques.
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