6 results for '"Denis Diderot"'

De 1759 à 1781, Diderot le philosophe, l'homme de lettres, a joué au critique d'art en donnant neuf Salons pour une revue littéraire. Il s'agissait alors de proposer aux abonnés, absents de Paris, un...

Un an après la publication remarquée du Voyage autour du monde de Bougainville, Diderot imagine ce "supplément", réflexion malicieuse, voire audacieuse, sur les institutions et les mœurs françaises...

The eighteenth-century French philosophe Denis Diderot—the principal intelligence behind the Encyclopédie and the author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as Jacques the Fatalist and Rameau's...

Jacques and His Master is a deliciously witty and entertaining play by Milan Kundera, the acclaimed Franco-Czech author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being and The Book of Laughter and Forgetting.A...

Best Book of the Year – Kirkus ReviewsA spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.Denis Diderot is often associated with the...

We think of the Enlightenment as an era dominated by ideas of progress, production, and industry--not an era that favored the lax and indolent individual. But was the Enlightenment only about the...