Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot

Jean Le Rond D'Alembert; translated by Richard N. Schwab

ISBN 10: 0672602768 / ISBN 13: 9780672602764

Published by Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1963

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A solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; a very good reading copy; text paper is not age toned; 172 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
• Publisher: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN
• Publication Date: 1963
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0672602768
• ISBN 13: 9780672602764
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: Third Printing
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as Issued

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Synopsis

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.