Daniel Brewer, Brewer Daniel

The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France

Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 448g
• ISBN-13: 9780521032216
• ISBN-10: 0521032210
• Artikelnr.: 21404007

Inhaltsangabe

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.