Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot Format: Paperback

Jean Le Rond d'Alembert

ISBN 10: 0226134768 / ISBN 13: 9780226134765

Published by University of Chicago press, 1995

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• Title: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot Format: Paperback
• Publisher: University of Chicago press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226134768
• ISBN 13: 9780226134765
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.

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With notable economy and vigor, Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that characterized the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.