Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written ...

Three hundred years ago, the author and philosopher Denis Diderot predicted that, according to author Andrew Curran, "The real threat to American democracy would not come from foreign powers; it would ...

What would happen if we could see the world through fresh eyes, and think about human experience in a new way, unencumbered by the old, discredited systems of knowledge? That question was part of what ...

Let us begin with last words, or at least the last words spoken in his daughter’s hearing by one of France’s greatest thinkers and one of its most congenial spirits, Denis Diderot. In 1784 the ailing ...

The early months of 1743 brought Denis Diderot’s career as a con artist and freeloader to a shameful end. His own father committed him as a prisoner to the Carmelite monastery in his hometown of ...

We think of France as being more liberated culturally and sexually than the US. And perhaps it is, today. But in the 1960s, post-war/pre-Mai '68 France ...

When Charles Scribner’s Sons decided to publish an illustrated book on hoofed mammals in 1953, it was probably not a subject with promising financial prospects—a worthy scientific treatise, perhaps, ...