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Author : Lester G. Crocker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Two Diderot Studies written by Lester G. Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039321
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Diana Guiragossian
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600004589
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by Diana Guiragossian and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Warman
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783748990
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (837 download)
Download or read book The Atheist's Bible: Diderot's 'Éléments de physiologie' written by Caroline Warman and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten’: Denis Diderot’s Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relationship between bodily sensation, emotion and perception, and asks his readers what it means to be human in the absence of a soul. The Atheist’s Bible challenges prevailing scholarly views on Diderot’s Éléments, asserting its contemporary philosophical importance, and prompting its readers to inspect more closely this little-known and little-studied work. In this timely volume, Warman establishes the place of Diderot’s Éléments in the trajectory of materialist theories of nature and the mind stretching back to Epicurus and Lucretius, and explores the fascinating reasons behind scholarly neglect of this seminal work. In turn, Warman outlines the hitherto unacknowledged dissemination and reception of Diderot’s Éléments, demonstrating how Diderot’s Éléments was circulated in manuscript-form as early as the 1790s, thus showing how the text came to influence the next generations of materialist thinkers. This book is accompanied by a digital edition of Jacques-André Naigeon’s Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot (1823), a work which, Warman argues, represents the first publication of Diderot’s Éléments, long before its official publication date of 1875. The Atheist’s Bible constitutes a major contribution to the field of Diderot studies, and will be of further interest to scholars and students of materialist natural philosophy in the Age of Enlightenment and beyond.
Author : Otis Fellows
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039390
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (393 download)
Download or read book Diderot Studies written by Otis Fellows and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1963 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew S. Curran
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590516729
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely written by Andrew S. Curran and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best 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 Gilbert Crocker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Two Diderot Studies written by Lester Gilbert Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674737903
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book Catherine & Diderot written by Robert Zaretsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb. In October 1773, after a grueling trek from Paris, the aged and ailing Denis Diderot stumbled from a carriage in wintery St. Petersburg. The century’s most subversive thinker, Diderot arrived as the guest of its most ambitious and admired ruler, Empress Catherine of Russia. What followed was unprecedented: more than forty private meetings, stretching over nearly four months, between these two extraordinary figures. Diderot had come from Paris in order to guide—or so he thought—the woman who had become the continent’s last great hope for an enlightened ruler. But as it soon became clear, Catherine had a very different understanding not just of her role but of his as well. Philosophers, she claimed, had the luxury of writing on unfeeling paper. Rulers had the task of writing on human skin, sensitive to the slightest touch. Diderot and Catherine’s series of meetings, held in her private chambers at the Hermitage, captured the imagination of their contemporaries. While heads of state like Frederick of Prussia feared the consequences of these conversations, intellectuals like Voltaire hoped they would further the goals of the Enlightenment. In Catherine & Diderot, Robert Zaretsky traces the lives of these two remarkable figures, inviting us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.
Author : Sunil M. Agnani
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823251802
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book Hating Empire Properly written by Sunil M. Agnani and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses arguments made against empire and colonialism in the eighteenth century through works by Denis Diderot and Edmund Burke. Explores the limits and failures of their arguments by emphasizing what they wrote on the two indies, especially India and Haiti.
Author : Julia Simon
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791426371
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Mass Enlightenment written by Julia Simon and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the writings of the critical theorists of the Frankfurt School as a framework, this book uncovers the tensions and contradictions associated with the rise of capitalism as manifested in the writings of Rousseau and Diderot.
Author : Jay Caplan
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719014772
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Framed Narratives written by Jay Caplan and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781980752486
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book The Skeptic's Walk written by Denis Diderot and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2018-04-05 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Divine Comedy or Pilgrim's Progress for the post-religious age. Finding himself on a quest through the forest of life towards the general rendez-vous at the end, our hero journeys first on the path of religion and faith, then the path of the philosophers where debate and ideas reign, and finally the path of worldly pursuits and pleasure. Along the way he dodges inquisitors, raging fanatics, insane philosophers, faithless lovers, and scheming social climbers. Truly a neglected classic. As Diderot said, "even if you are not amused, you may still benefit from it."This third edition was revised in 2018.
Author : Lester G. Crocker
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Two Diderot Studies written by Lester G. Crocker and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Denis Diderot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781849023573
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Rameau's Nephew written by Denis Diderot and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 18th Century Frenchman Diderot uses a fictional conversation between two men to criticize those who argued against the Enlightenment. As his prior works of political opinion had caused his imprisonment, Diderot was especially careful to craft "Rameau's Nephew" in such a way to not face further trouble.
Author : Phoebe von Held
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351577034
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Alienation and Theatricality written by Phoebe von Held and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alienation (Vefremdung) is a concept inextricably linked with the name of twentieth-century German playwright Bertolt Brecht - with modernism, the avant-garde and Marxist theory. However, as Phoebe von Held argues in this book, 'alienation' as a sociological and aesthetic notionavant la lettre had already surfaced in the thought of eighteenth-century French philosopher and writer Denis Diderot. This original study destabilizes the conventional understanding of alienation through a reading ofLe Paradoxe sur le comedien, Le Neveu de Rameau and other works by Diderot, opening up new ways of interpretation and aesthetic practices. If alienation constitutes a historical development for the Marxist Brecht, for Diderot it defines an existential condition. Brecht uses the alienation-effect to undermine a form of naturalism based on subjectivity, identification and illusion; Diderot, by contrast, plunges the spectator into identification and illusion, to produce an aesthetic of theatricality that is profoundly alienating and yet remains anchored in subjectivity.
Author : Geoffrey Bremner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521250080
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)
Download or read book Order and Chance written by Geoffrey Bremner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-09-08 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study discovers a pattern to Diderot's thinking, a fundamental dualism attributable largely to the attitudes and assumptions of the time and giving a common structure to his ideas and writing. Geoffrey Bremner draws widely on Diderot's works in studying his ideas on perception and action, aesthetics, ethics and politics, as well as his plays and fiction. The subtlety of the textual analysis and the analogies Dr Bremner draws provide a convincing and illuminating argument for his interpretation. He supports this but emphasising the intellectual circumstances in which Diderot wrote and demonstrating his links to other eighteenth- and seventeenth-century writers. His study will therefore make a valuable contribution to the reassessment of the period that is currently underway, as well as to the central, elusive problem presented by Diderot's thought itself.
Author : Paul Bänichou
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803261525
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (615 download)
Download or read book The Consecration of the Writer, 1750-1830 written by Paul Bänichou and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Consecration of the Writer is the definitive study of the first stages of a phenomenon that has profoundly affected world literature: the process by which modern writers ceased to speak as representatives of some religious or political power and instead seized the mantle of spiritual authority in their own right, speaking directly to and in the name of humanity. ø Paul Bänichou identifies three great moments in this process: the advent of the Enlightenment faith in philosophy and the rise of its literary concomitant, the man of letters; the literary creations of the counterrevolution and their surprising involvement in the elevation of the status of poetry; and, finally, the fusion of these tendencies in the early phases of romanticism in France. ø Bänichou deepens our understanding of romanticism by showing that it was a revision of the Enlightenment faith rather than a reaction against it. The extraordinary depth of Bänichou?s research, the originality of his conclusions, and the importance of his methodological reflections make this study an essential reference in the contemporary return to literary history.
