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9780226134765

Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot

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  • ISBN13:

    9780226134765

  • ISBN10:

    0226134768

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1995-08-15
  • Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

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Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderotexpresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia,d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectusand a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia,this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.

Table of Contents

Frontispiece and caption v & vi(1)
Translator's Introduction ix(44)
Note on the Translation liii
Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
Part I
3(57)
Part II
60(46)
Part III
106(37)
Detailed Explanation of the System of Human Knowledge 143(16)
Observations on Bacon's Division of the Sciences 159(6)
Index 165

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