Catherine & Diderot

In 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, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.

About the author

Robert Zaretsky is a literary biographer and historian of France. He is Professor of Humanities at the Honors College, University of Houston, and the author of many books, including A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning and Boswell’s Enlightenment. Zaretsky is the history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Forward, and a frequent contributor to the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Foreign Policy, and Chronicle of Higher Education.

Summary

In 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, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Zaretsky, Zaretsky Robert
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9780674737907
• ISBN: 978-0-674-73790-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 217 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Frankreich, Europäische Geschichte, 18. Jahrhundert (1700 bis 1799 n. Chr.), History of Ideas, Idealismus, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, HISTORY / Europe / France, Europa / Geschichte, Kulturgeschichte, HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century, Western philosophy from c 1800