Prose of the World: Denis Diderot and the Periphery of Enlightenment

by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

Philosopher and translator, novelist, art critic, and editor of the "Encyclop die," Denis Diderot was one of the liveliest figures within the European 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 characterized by a clearly centrifugal dynamic? Taking Hegel's fascinated irritation with Diderot's work as a starting point,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503615251
• ISBN13: 9781503615250
• Release Date: May 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"