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The great eighteenth-century French thinker Denis Diderot (1713
1784) once compared himself to a weathervane, by which he meant
that his mind was in constant motion. In an extraordinarily diverse
career he produced novels, plays, art criticism, works of
philosophy and poetics, and also reflected on music and opera.
Perhaps most famously, he ensured the publication of the
Encyclopedie, which has often been credited with hastening the
onset of the French Revolution. Known as one of the three greatest
philosophes of the Enlightenment, Diderot rejected the Christian
ideas in which he had been raised. Instead, he became an atheist
and a determinist. His radical questioning of received ideas and
established religion led to a brief imprisonment, and for that
reason, no doubt, some of his subsequent works were written for
posterity. This collection of essays celebrates the life and work
of this extraordinary figure as we approach the tercentenary of his
birth."
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