Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in His Major Works
Language: English
Published by Voltaire Foundation, 1998
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- Title
- Diderot's Counterpoints: The Dynamics of Contrariety in His Major Works
- Author
- Rex, Walter E.
- Publisher
- Voltaire Foundation
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Good
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- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0729406202
- ISBN 13
- 9780729406208
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- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
This feature of Diderot’s mental processes has received little attention from scholars – for good reasons: contrarieties suggest that the movement of Diderot’s thought is often neither logical nor even rational, that frequently his concepts do not remain fixed and stable, or add up along straight lines. The existence of contrarieties implies that, as Diderot wrote, his ideas proceed in discrete stages, creating an evolution of concepts whose values are not only changing, but often contradicting their previous meanings. Finally, contrarieties play against the principle, sacred to scholars of literature, that the ideas of work of art must have cogerence in order to be comprehensible.
Accepting these challenges to tradition as the basis of his argument, Professor Rex proposes radically new analyses of almost all of Diderot’s major works (the only significant omission, La Religieuse, has been extensively treated by Professor Rex elsewhere). In sum, this perception of the dynamics of Diderot’s thought promises not only to alter fundamentally our understanding of his ‘philosophy’, but also to give a new sense of his importance in the Enlightenment.
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