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Diderot and European Culture (English, French, Paperback)
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Diderot and European Culture (English, French, Paperback)
Series: Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment, 2006:09
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The shift in the interpretation of eighteenth-century European
culture over the last century provokes the questions: what meaning
can be ascribed to that notion at the beginning of the twenty-first
century? and how should we see Diderot's response to it? This
collection of essays re-examines Diderot's uniquely rich
relationship with the intellectual life of European nations, and
his crucial role in focusing, connecting and spreading its many
strands. While sharing certain Eurocentric prejudices, he held a
more liberated view of a common humanity and the universal nature
of human aspirations. These essays explore his interest in those
hybrid, borderline zones, where systems, hierarchies, and national
or disciplinary boundaries come under productive stress. What
emerges is the irreducibility of his writing, which resists
incorporation into any officially sanctioned canon. The Diderot
being created by today's scholars is truly protean, not so much
French, or even European, as global, a cultural icon for the modern
age.
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