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001 2010044823
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008 101018s2011 enk b 001 0deng
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020 $a9780521769563 (hardback)
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050 00 $aPQ1979$b.N49 2011
082 00 $a848/.509$222
084 $aLIT004130$2bisacsh
245 00 $aNew essays on Diderot /$cedited by James Fowler.
264 1 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2011.
300 $axiv, 266 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 $a"The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713-1784) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 248-259) and index.
600 10 $aDiderot, Denis,$d1713-1784.
650 7 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / General$2bisacsh.
700 1 $aFowler, J. E.$q(James E.)
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805217/69563/cover/9780521769563.jpg