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

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
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.04.1993
• EAN: 9780521414838
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41483-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works