Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot

Name: Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot
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ISBN: 9780226134765

ISBN-10: 0226134768

ISBN-13: 9780226134765

Edition: 1995

Authors: Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Richard N. Schwab

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Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses 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 Prospectus and 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.

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 8/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Frontispiece and caption Translator's


Introduction Note on the Translation Preliminary


Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot









Detailed Explanation of the System of Human Knowledge Observations on Bacon's Division of the Sciences


Index