Description
| Product ID: | 9781635420395 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely |
| Authors: | Author: Andrew S. Curran |
| Page Count: | 528 |
| Subjects: | Biography: general, Biography: general, General and world history, History, Philosophy, Humanist philosophy, General & world history, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Philosophy, Humanist & secular alternatives to religion, c 1700 to c 1800 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who, along with Voltaire and Rousseau, helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world''s first comprehensive Encyclopedie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot dreamed of natural selection before Darwin, the Oedipus complex before Freud, and genetic manipulation centuries before Dolly the Sheep. Even more audaciously, the writer challenged virtually all of his century''s accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the complications of human sexuality. |
| Imprint Name: | Other Press LLC |
| Publisher Name: | Other Press LLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-13 |