PROSE OF THE WORLD

A lively examination of the life and work of one of the great Enlightenment intellectualsPhilosopher, translator, novelist, art crit ic, and editor of the Encyclopédie, Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures of the Enlightenment. But how might we delineate the contours of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries, Voltaire, Rousseau, Schiller, Kant, or Hume, is c learly characterized by a centrifugal dynamic?Taking Hegel's fascinated irritation with Diderot's work as a starting point, Hans Ulr ich Gumbr...[Read more]