Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written ...

Before there was Wikipedia, there were encyclopedias — and Saturday marks the 300th birthday of the father of one of the world's most important. Eighteenth-century French philosopher Denis Diderot was ...

Three hundred years ago, the author and philosopher Denis Diderot predicted that, according to author Andrew Curran, "The real threat to American democracy would not come from foreign powers; it would ...

2020-12-06T08:45:17-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/277/20201206090045002_hd.jpgHumanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life, works, and influence of ...

Denis Diderot was an 18th-century French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédia along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert ...

The early months of 1743 brought Denis Diderot’s career as a con artist and freeloader to a shameful end. His own father committed him as a prisoner to the Carmelite monastery in his hometown of ...

Denis Diderot and his Encyclopédie." On this date in 1423, the English won a great victory over the French in the Hundred Years’ War. I bet you didn’t know that, and I bet you don’t care either. Every ...

*Maybe they called it 'the Enlightenment' for a reason. "In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess ...

When Charles Scribner’s Sons decided to publish an illustrated book on hoofed mammals in 1953, it was probably not a subject with promising financial prospects—a worthy scientific treatise, perhaps, ...