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Автор: Curran, Andrew S.
Название: Diderot
ISBN: 9781635420395
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Классификация:

Биографии: общее жизнеописание

Всеобщая и мировая история

История нового времени до 20 века: с 1700 по 1900

Философия

Гуманистические и светские альтернативы религии

ISBN-10: 1635420393
Обложка/Формат: Trade Paperback
Страницы: 528
Вес: 0.61 кг.
Дата издания: 22.09.2020
Язык: English
Размер: 152 x 228 x 32
Основная тема: Biography & Autobiography
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Поставляется из: США
Описание: Best Book of the Year - Kirkus Reviews

A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.

Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the worlds first comprehensive Encyclop die into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity-for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his centurys accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderots most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire.

In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderots tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writers personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.

Diderot, Curran, Andrew S.