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Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot - Softcover

D'Alembert, Jean Le Rond

 
9780226134765: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0226134768 ISBN 13: 9780226134765
Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1995

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.

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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0226134768
ISBN 13 
9780226134765
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
224