Denis Diderot is now remembered, if at all, only as the name of a Metro railway station in an unfashionable neighbourhood of Paris. In his day, however, the 18th century Enlightenment philosopher was ...

** Originally published on June 10, 2019. 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 ways of ...

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 ...

l'Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers (The Encyclopedia, or systematic dictionary of the sciences, arts and crafts) was published in France between 1751 and ...

DENIS Diderot is universally acknowledged as one of the leading thinkers of the 18th-century Enlightenment. As a philosopher in that intellectually exciting whirlpool of the post-Cartesian age, which ...