Diderot: Political Writings
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This volume presents a selection of the political writings of one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. It contains the most important articles that Diderot contributed to the Encyclopédie, of which he was principal edito... Read more
This volume presents a selection of the political writings of one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment. It contains the most important articles that Diderot contributed to the Encyclopédie, of which he was principal editor, the complete texts of his Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville and Observations sur le Nakaz (translated into English here for the first time), and a substantial number of his contributions to Raynal''s Histoire des Deux Indes. The editors'' introduction puts these works in context, showing their essential features and underlying coherence. Less
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  • 8.5 X 5.51 X 0.79 in
  • 276
  • Cambridge University Press
  • May 28, 1992
  • English
  • 9780521369114
Denis Diderot was born at Langres in eastern France in 1713. After graduating in Paris in 1732, he was nominally a law student for ten years, but was actually leading a precarious bohemian but studio...
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