Diderot's earlier philosophical writings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23478146 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marian Hobson (Universidad de Londres, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Pages | 31-46 |
| Publication date | 2011-03-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | New Essays on Diderot (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511975202.003 |
| OpenAlex | W1749083670 |
| ISBN | 9780511975202 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
Diderot's standing as a philosopher is decidedly non-standard. It is odd in a number of ways. First, he worked for much of his life as a part of various socio-professional groups – different ones succeeding each other from the 1740s on: the Encyclopédistes during the later 1740s and the 1750s when he acted as the director of the great Encyclopédie ; painters, architects and doctors in the 1760s, their information, and sometimes their personalities, brought into the trilogy Le Rêve de d'Alembert ( D'Alembert's Dream ) and into his art criticism, the great Salons of the 60s; the team round Raynal putting together the history of colonialism and European expansion, Histoire des deux Indes ( A History of the Two Indies ) during the 1760s and 1770s; the very wealthy Baron d'Holbach's coterie from about 1752 on, and the materialist–atheist volumes it produced.
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Historical and Literary Analyses · Historical and Literary Studies · Philosophy · Rousseau and Enlightenment Thought
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2022 (5) |
| Highly cited | No |