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Diderot's Chaotic Order - Approach to Synthesis (Paperback)
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Diderot's Chaotic Order - Approach to Synthesis (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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Because of its fragmentary, evolving, exploratory, and dialectical
character, Diderot's thought has continuously resisted overall
synthesis. In the ideas of "order" and "disorder," ideas important
in all of eighteenth-century thought, Lester G. Crocker finds the
key to an outline of a structure that leads to a genuine synthesis
of Diderot's writings on philosophy, morality, politics, and
aesthetics. The tensions in Diderot's thought, Professor Crocker
shows, reflect his understanding of reality itself--paradoxically,
an anarchic order, a dynamic universe governed by laws but always
changing in a chaotic way. The book examines Diderot's approach to
aesthetics as a human ordering response to the world, and his
approach to morals and politics as practical ways of dealing with
the problems of order and disorder in the context of life in
society. In light of the concepts of order and disorder, the
inextricable associations of all of these realms of thought in
Diderot's work become clear, and a unity is perceived. Since the
problem of order and disorder was fundamental to an age faced with
the dissolution of the Christian view of cosmic order, this novel
approach to Diderot's work suggests new ways of understanding the
Enlightenment as a whole. Originally published in 1974. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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