Pensées philosophiques ...
Published: 1772
Place of publication: A Amsterdam; i.e. Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 90
Notes: In his Oeuvres philosophiques et dramatiques, t. 3, 1772.

False imprint.

Perhaps also issued separately; also issued in his Oeuvres philosophiques, t. 3, 1772.

First published in 1746, this work incorporates, by adaptation & translation, considerable material from A.A. Cooper, 3d earl of Shaftesbury's Letter concerning enthusiasm (1708) & "Miscellaneous reflections ...", the latter published as part of his Characteristicks ... (1711) (cf. Franco Venturi, La jeunesse de Diderot (1713-1753) [1939], 359-363); reissued in the same year with title Etrennes aux esprits forts & for a time thereafter wrongly ascribed to Voltaire; also published with additions probably made by Diderot, with title L'apocalypse de la raison ... (1760?); not to be confused with Nouvelles pensées philosophiques, par D. Diderot [but probably not by him] (1781?); for a list of works written as refutations of the present work, see Diderot's Oeuvres complètes, ed. Robert Niklaus et al., 2 [1975], 6-7.