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Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France - Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing

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Klappentext This study focuses on Denis Diderot! whose experimentation with presenting critical knowledge exemplifies the Enlightenment's struggle to produce a rationalist critique of all prior knowledge. Zusammenfassung This study focuses on Denis Diderot! whose experimentation with presenting critical knowledge exemplifies the Enlightenment's struggle to produce a rationalist critique of all prior knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on the text; Introduction; 1. Representing knowledge: reading the Encyclopédie; 2. Enlightenment critique and Diderot's art of philosophizing; 3. The matter of judgment and the art of phrasing sensation; 4. Critical narratives: Diderot's Salons; 5. Embodying knowledge; 6. Portraying Diderot: the aftermath; 7. Interpreting Diderot: critical values, critical violence; Notes; Index.

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Authors Daniel Brewer, Daniel (University of Minnesota) Brewer, Brewer Daniel
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 14.12.2006
 
EAN 9780521032216
ISBN 978-0-521-03221-6
No. of pages 316
Series Cambridge Studies in French
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

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