Diderot's chaotic order: approach to synthesis
Auteur :
Crocker, Lester G.
Éditeur :
Princeton University Press
ISBN :
9780691618524
Date de publication :
8 mars 2015
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
286 g
Format :
Trade paperback (US)
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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 writing