The Discourse of Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century France
Subtitle: Diderot and the Art of Philosophizing (Cambridge Studies in French)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 18, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780521032216
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Philosophy; Literary Criticism; French; Europe; European - French; History & Surveys - 17th/18th Century; Diderot, Denis, --1713-1784; Diderot, Denis,--1713-1784; Literary Collections / Continental European; Literary Criticism-European - French; European - General
First sentence: Conceived initially in 1745 as a business venture consisting of a two-volume translation of Ephraim Chamber's Cyclopedia of 1728, the Encyclopedia project had already outstripped all original plans by the time the first volume of articles appeared in 1751.