Robert Zaretsky

Catherine & Diderot

The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 146mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 443g
• ISBN-13: 9780674737907
• ISBN-10: 0674737903
• Artikelnr.: 54471033

Autorenporträt

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.