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Author | : James Fowler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2011-03-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139500554 |
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The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713–84) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera. Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the Encyclopédie, which has often been credited with hastening the onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his birth.
Author | : Andrew S. Curran |
Publisher | : Other Press, LLC |
Total Pages | : 529 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1590516702 |
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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 world’s first comprehensive Encyclopédie 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 In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot’s 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 Diderot’s 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 writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.
Author | : Denis Diderot |
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Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 1893 |
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Publisher | : Librairie Droz |
Total Pages | : 196 |
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ISBN | : 9782600039321 |
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Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Arts |
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Author | : Anita Brookner |
Publisher | : London ; New York : Phaidon |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Art criticism |
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Author | : Denis Diderot |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
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Author | : Gerard Assayag |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 3662049279 |
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In Western Civilization Mathematics and Music have a long and interesting history in common, with several interactions, traditionally associated with the name of Pythagoras but also with a significant number of other mathematicians, like Leibniz, for instance. Mathematical models can be found for almost all levels of musical activities from composition to sound production by traditional instruments or by digital means. Modern music theory has been incorporating more and more mathematical content during the last decades. This book offers a journey into recent work relating music and mathematics. It contains a large variety of articles, covering the historical aspects, the influence of logic and mathematical thought in composition, perception and understanding of music and the computational aspects of musical sound processing. The authors illustrate the rich and deep interactions that exist between Mathematics and Music.
Author | : Kate E. Tunstall |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2011-08-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1441113452 |
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Blindness and Enlightenment presents a reading and a new translation of Diderot's Letter on the Blind. Diderot was the editor of the Encyclopédie, that Trojan horse of Enlightenment ideas, as well as a novelist, playwright, art critic and philosopher. His Letter on the Blind of 1749 is essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment philosophy or eighteenth-century literature because it contradicts a central assumption of Western literature and philosophy, and of the Enlightenment in particular, namely that moral and philosophical insight is dependent on seeing. Kate Tunstall's essay guides the reader through the Letter, its anecdotes, ideas and its conversational mode of presenting them, and it situates the Letter in relation both to the Encyclopedie and to a rich tradition of writing about and, most importantly, talking and listening to the blind.
Author | : John Nicholas Pappas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Enlightenment |
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