ACLS Humanities E-Book: Diderot

Diderot

Wilson, Arthur McCandless, 1902-

Year: 1972.

Publisher: Oxford University Press.

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Frontmatter

PART I: THE TESTING YEARS

Prologue

1. Diderot's Family and Early Childhood

2. Diderot Becomes an Abbé and Goes to Paris

3. Clandestine Marriage

4. First Fruits

5. The Emerging Philosophe

6. The Early History of the Encyclopédie

7. Two Very Different Books

8. Letter on the Blind

9. Diderot in Prison

10. The Prospectus of the Encyclopédie, and Letter on the Deaf and Dumb

11. What Readers Found in Volume I of the Encyclopédie

12. 'Up till Now, Hell Has Vomited its Venom Drop by Drop'

13. The Encyclopédie Recontinued

14. Italian Opera and French Taste

15. Diderot's Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature

16. 'Man is Born To Think for Himself'

17. Business and Pleasure: A New Contract, Mme Geoffrin's Salon, Sophie Volland

18. 'Changing the General Way of Thinking'

19. Growing Tension with Rousseau: 'Only the Bad Man Lives Alone'

20. How to Write a Play: Example and Precept

21. Rising Opposition; D'Alembert's Blunder in Volume VII

22. 'I Used To Have an Aristarchus . . . I Wish To Have Him No Longer'

23. Signs and Portents of Approaching Eclipse

24. Le Père de Famille and the 'Discourse on Dramatic Poetry'

25. The Death of the Phoenix

EPILOGUE

PART II: THE APPEAL TO POSTERITY, 1759-1784

Taking Stock

27. Second Wind

28. Grandval

29. The Nun's Story (La Religieuse

30. 'That Tartuffe of a Diderot'

331. Le Père de famille at the Comédie-Française

32. Frustration, Self-assertion, and Wistfulness

33. Concern for the Public Welfare

34. Diderot Sells His Library

35. Perfidy Where Least Expected

36. Private Life and Public Alarms

37. Diderot, Falconet, and Catherine II

38. Diderot as Critic and Philosopher of Art

39. 'It Is Really Bizarre the Variety of Roles I Play in This World'

40. Le Rêve de d'Alembert (1769)

41. A Disturbing Involvement and Its Literary Effects

42. 'I No Longer Have a Child, I Am Alone, and My Solitude Is Unbearable'

43. First Visit to Holland and the Paradoxe sur le comédien

44. Diderot in Russia

45. Return to the West

46. Ethical Doctrine: Determinism and Humanism

47. Indian Summer

48. Last Writings, Ill Health, and Death

EPILOGUE: The Appeal to Posterity

List of Abbreviations

Notes

Bibliography

A Survey of Publications Since 1957 on Diderot's Early Years

Emendations to The Testing Years

Index

reviews

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Title:

Diderot : by Arthur M. Wilson.

Author:

Wilson, Arthur McCandless, 1902-

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Diderot : by Arthur M. Wilson.
Wilson, Arthur McCandless, 1902-
New York: Oxford University Press, 1972.

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Subject Headings:

• Diderot, Denis, -- 1713-1784

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