The Encyclopedists as a Group: A Collective Biography of the Authors of the 'Encyclopédie'

by Frank A. Kafker

This collective biography examines the similarities and differences among the 140 collaborators identified as having written articles for the seventeen folio volumes of text. It discusses the following topics: the family background, formal education, and occupational choice of the encyclopedists; how and where they were recruited for the Encyclop die and their compensation; their contributions to the work and wheter they were censored or persecuted...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0729405214
• ISBN13: 9780729405218
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Voltaire Foundation
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"