Denis Diderot Libros

First paperbound edition of 485 remarkable plates -- over 2,000 illustrations -- that accompanied landmark work of the Enlightenment. Royalty-free images depict agriculture, military science, metalwork, mining, textile manufacture, masonry, carpentry, more.

The book is a facsimile reprint of a scarce antiquarian work, preserving its original content despite potential imperfections like marks and flawed pages. Emphasizing its cultural significance, the edition aims to protect and promote classic literature by making it accessible in a high-quality format that remains true to the original text.

Exploring the historical and political landscape of France prior to the Revolution, this book delves into the writings of influential philosophers and thinkers. It highlights their ideas and arguments, providing a deeper understanding of the intellectual climate that shaped revolutionary sentiments. Through these key figures, readers gain insight into the transformative ideas that fueled the quest for change in France during this pivotal era.

The 18th-century French philosopher Denis Diderot - author of idiosyncratic fictional works such as "Jacques the Fatalist" and "Rameau's Nephew" - is also considered by many to have been the first great art critic. This two-volume edition makes his art-critical texts available in English.

This anthology features unabridged translations of Diderot's best work as a literary artist, including those writings that embody his most original and influential ideas. schovat popis

Jacques the Fatalist is a provocative exploration of the problems of human existence, destiny, and free will. In the introduction to this brilliant translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with fate and examines the experimental and influential literary techniques that make Jacques the Fatalist a classic of the Enlightenment.

This volume presents a selection of the political writings of one of the most significant figures of the French enlightenment.

Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. A succès de scandale at the end of the eighteenth century, it has attracted and unsettled readers ever since. For Diderot's novel is not simply a story of a young girl with a bad habit; it is also a powerfully emblematic fable about oppression and intolerance.This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material, which he placed, disconcertingly, at the end of the novel, and which turns what otherwise seems like an exercise in realism into what is now regarded as a masterpiece of proto-modernist fiction.