Preliminary Discourse To The Encyclopedia Of Diderot Squeaky Clean Copy

Description: Preliminary Discourse To The Encyclopedia Of Diderot.by Jean Le Rond d''Alembert, his collaborator. Condition is excellent, unread and without flaws or marks. Just like the day the it was purchased. Condition is very important with paperbacks and this is in excellent shape. About this productProduct InformationPreliminary 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.Product IdentifiersPublisherUniversity of Chicago PressISBN-100226134768ISBN-139780226134765eBay Product ID (ePID)88159Product Key FeaturesAuthorJean Le Rond D'alembertFormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishPublication Year1995Number of Pages224 PagesDimensionsItem Length8.1in.Item Height0.5in.Item Width5.2in.Item Weight11.1 OzAdditional Product FeaturesLc Classification NumberB1933.E5s38 1995Table of ContentFrontispiece and caption Translator's Introduction Note on the Translation Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot Part I Part II Part III Detailed Explanation of the System of Human Knowledge Observations on Bacon's Division of the Sciences IndexCopyright Date1995Target AudienceScholarly & ProfessionalTopicFrench, Methodology, Europe / France, GeneralLccn95-011562Dewey Decimal034/.1Dewey Edition20IllustratedYesGenreForeign Language Study, Science, History, Philosophy

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