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Diderot

NOUN
  1. French philosopher who was a leading figure of the Enlightenment in France; principal editor of an encyclopedia that disseminated the scientific and philosophical knowledge of the time (1713-1784)

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  • This is one of the many examples of the share of Diderot's energetic and stimulating intelligence, in directing and nourishing the movement of the time, its errors and precipitancies included. Diderot and the Encyclopaedists
  • Reasoning for the ordinary and quotidian experiences of observation, Diderot demanded not only the artist but also the art critic to be liberated from the studio model.
  • Diderot was influenced by English 18th-century aestheticians, particularly Lord Shaftesbury, whom he translated.
  • scabrous" part of the matter by the author of Diderot's other books. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800
  • The same argument was taken up again by the encyclopedist Denis Diderot in 1763, after he was commissioned by the Paris Book Guild to write a Letter on the Book Trade.
  • Diderot only kind of humility, as the lack of fighting spirit, as the defensive.
  • Don Quixote is the first modern novel, perhaps the most eternal novel ever written and certainly the fountainhead of European and American fiction; here you have Gogol and Dostoevsky, Dickens and Nabokov, Borges and Bellow, Sterne and Diderot in their genetic nakedness, once more taking to the road with the gentleman and the squire, believing the world is what we read and discovering that the world reads us. Richard C. Morais: Our Knight In Shining Armor
  • All the same, despite his intelligence and charm, Diderot is perhaps less interesting in himself than as a symptom and influence.
  • '' 'Denis Diderot' '' (1713-1784) was a French intellectual ( "[[philosophe]]") and philosopher, and a major organizer and leader of the [[Enlightenment]]. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
  • Nucingen made one with the Prince de Ligne, with Mazarin or with Diderot, is a human formula that is almost inconceivable, but which has nevertheless been known as Pericles, Aristotle, Voltaire, and Napoleon. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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