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	Denis Diderot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It considers the case of the intellect deprived of the aid of one of the senses; and in a second piece, published afterwards, Diderot considered the case of a similar deprivation in the deaf and mute.
		Diderot's miscellaneous pieces range from a graceful trifle like the Règrets sur ma vieille robe de chambre up to Le rêve de D'Alembert, where he plunges into the depths of the controversy as to the ultimate constitution of matter and the meaning of life.
		Diderot was not a coherent and systematic thinker, but rather "a philosopher in whom all the contradictions of the time struggle with one another" (Rosenkranz).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denis_Diderot (1976 words)

	Diderot - MSN Encarta
		Diderot was born in Langres on October 5, 1713, and educated by Jesuits.
		Diderot, collaborating with the mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, Encyclopédie ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, which is usually known as the Encyclopédie.
		Diderot's voluminous writings include the novels La religieuse (The Nun, written 1760, published 1796), an attack on convent life; Le neveu de Rameau (written 1761-1774, published 1805; translated as Rameau's Nephew, 1964), a social satire; and Jacques le fataliste (1796), which explored the psychology of free will and determinism.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761576884/Diderot_Denis.html (380 words)

	Denis Diderot
		Denis Diderot was born at Langres as the son of a successful cutler.
		Diderot sent letters in her name to the marquis, as if she had escaped her convent and was looking for his help.
		Diderot was a pivotal figure of the entire century, but his later reputation was shadowed by the brilliance of his two contemporaries, Voltaire and Rousseau.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /diderot.htm (1815 words)

	Denis Diderot biography
		Diderot's first work of philosophic importance is the Lettre sur les aveugles à l’usage de сeux qui voient (1749), which, though apparently a hypothetical study of the philosophy of sensation, really involved an undermining of ethical standards and so of social order.
		To this Diderot gave 20 years of unremitting labor, writing, revising, editing, correcting, supervising, and combating the intrigues and threats of theological opponents and the prohibitions of a censorship that, fortunately for his publishers, was venal as well as corrupt.
		In his critiques on the annual exhibition of painting, the famous Salon, Diderot established the first bond between art and literature; still he can hardly be considered an art critic, owing to his ignorance of its technique and his undue insistence on the mere subject or idea of the work.
	dromo.info /diderotbio.htm (853 words)

	DENIS DIDEROT, HIS CONTRIBUTION
		Diderot's work on the Encyclopdie, however, was not interrupted for long, and in 1750 he outlined his program for it in a Prospectus, which d'Alembert expanded into the momentous "Discours prliminaire" (1751).
		Diderot was undaunted by the government's censorship of the work and by the criticism of conservatives and reactionaries.
		Diderot went to St. Petersburg in 1773 to thank her for her financial support and was received with great honour and warmth.
	skeptically.org /thinkersonreligion/id5.html (2365 words)

	Diderot, the Mechanical Arts, and the Encyclopaedie: In Search of the Heritage of Technology Education
		Diderot had grown up around craftsmen and their work because his father was a master cutler, but he did not pursue his father's trade.
		Diderot acquired a classical education at a school in Langres until he was 15 years old and then high school in Paris for three years (Crocker, 1966).
		Diderot's method obscured aspects of the arts or technology that are difficult to articulate, analyze, or draw: technical problems, intuition, design failures, experimentation, and human curiosity and creativity, all of which are critical for invention and innovation.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /ejournals/JTE/jte-v6n1/pannabecker.jte-v6n1.html (4719 words)

	Diderot, Denis on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DIDEROT, DENIS [Diderot, Denis], 1713-84, French encyclopedist, philosopher of materialism, and critic of art and literature, b.
		Diderot was enormously influential in shaping the rationalistic spirit of the 18th cent.
		Anatomy of Observation: From the Academie royale de la Chirurgie to the Salons of Denis Diderot.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/D/Diderot.asp (486 words)

	Denis Diderot - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
		Diderot also contributed to literature, notably with his work Jacques le fataliste, which challenged conventions regarding novels and their structure and content, while also examining philosophical ideas relating to free will.
		It considers the case of the intellect deprived of the aid of one of the senses; and in a second piece, published afterwards, Diderot consideredthe case of a similar deprivation in the deaf and dumb.
		Diderot's interest expressed itself in didactic and sympathetic form; in two, however, of the most remarkable of all his pieces, it is not sympathetic, but ironical.
	www.factbug.org /cgi-bin/a.cgi?a=8199 (1759 words)

	Denis Diderot
		Diderot's earliest writings were of as little importance as Goldsmith's Enquiry into the State of Polite Learning or Edmund Burke's Abridgement of English History.
		It was Diderot's lessons and example that gave a decisive bias to the dramatic taste of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, whose plays, and his Hamburgische Dramaturgie (1768), mark so important an epoch in the history of the modern theater.
		For Diderot was above all things interested in the life of men -- not the abstract life of the race, but the incidents of individual character, the fortunes of a particular family, the relations of real and concrete motives in this or that special case.
	www.nndb.com /people/914/000082668 (2956 words)

	DIDEROT, Denis (1713-84) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The essayist and philosopher Denis Diderot was one of the originators and interpreters of the Age of Enlightenment.
		Diderot was born in Langres, France, on Oct. 5, 1713.
		Diderot’ s work on the Encyclopédie, however, was not interrupted for long, and in 1750 he outlined his program for it in a Prospectus, which d'Alembert expanded into the momentous Discours préliminaire (1751).
	history-world.org /diderot.htm (920 words)

	Denis Diderot [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denis Diderot was the most prominent of the French Encyclopedists.
		He was educated by the Jesuits, and, refusing to enter one of the learned professions, was turned adrift by his father and came to Paris, where he lived from hand to mouth for a time.
		He attacked the conventional morality of the day, with the result (to which possibly an allusion to the mistress of a minister contributed) that he was imprisoned at Vincennes for three months.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/d/diderot.htm (366 words)

	Glossary of People: Di (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denis Diderot's comtemporaries in the Paris of Louis XV and XVI were Voltaire, Rousseau, Condillac, d'Alembert, Condorcet, Montesquieu, Gassendi, Fontonelle, Buffon, d'Holbach, Helvetius and others - the brilliant young philosophers who made up the movement of the Enlightenment, who were laying the philosophical basis for the great French Revolution.
		Diderot was the son of a cutler, chosen for the Church, but he abandoned the clergy for writing and philosophy, leading a bohemian lifestyle, always on the verge of starvation, one step ahead of the police, dodging the censors, in an atmosphere of fervent political and philosophical debate.
		Diderot mobilised his friends and associates to gather together a work which summarised the achievements of the science and industry of the time and would act as a beacon for the overthrow of feudalism, clerical obscurantism and backwardness.
	www.marxists.org /glossary/people/d/i.htm (1430 words)

	Malaspina Great Books - Denis Diderot (1713)
		Denis Diderot (1713 - 1784) was a French writer and philosopher.
		Diderot (1713-84) had not yet written any original work except the Pensees philosophiques (1746),; in which the foundations of Christianity are examined and undermined, revelation rejected, and reason proclaimed independent.
		Three months later, however, Diderot and D'Alembert were asked to continue the work, a fact which they announce with pride in the preface to the third volume (October, 1753).
	www.malaspina.org /home.asp?topic=./search/details&lastpage=./search/results&ID=148 (3226 words)

	Diderot's role in The Enlightenment
		Denis Diderot, one of the philosophers of the Enlightenment era, pioneered revolutionary thoughts, which gained him a place among the great thinkers that formed part of the Enlightenment movement.
		Denis Diderot collected and presented scattered knowledge of the divine rights, reasoning, and toleration, and in doing so, ushered in Europe’s modern era.
		Denis Diderot should always be remembered as one of the great philosophers of the Age of Reason.
	www.cs.fiu.edu /~ukhan01/writings/Diderot_Enlightenment.htm (886 words)

	Denis Diderot Biography
		Diderot seized upon it so eagerly and presented it in such an attractive light that he succeeded in winning the approbation of the pious Chancellor d'Aguesseau, and in inducing him to give his assent, his patronage, to the undertaking; d'Aguesseau was its earliest patron.
		Diderot's atheism, although he flaunts it at intervals with a deplorable flourish of trumpets, and although his adversaries have too pitillessly taken him at his word, can generally be reduced to the denial of an unkind and vindictive God.
		Nor should we forget that Diderot's nun is an illegitimate daughter and that by having her write her life story in the first person Diderot is attempting the curious experiment of identifying himself with the tormented existence of a woman's mind and body.
	people.brandeis.edu /~teuber/diderotbio.html (7634 words)

	CONVERSATION BETWEEN D'ALEMBERT AND DIDEROT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Diderot: Falconet won't mind; the statue is paid for, and Falconet cares little for present respect and not at all for that of posterity.
		Diderot: Then, if a being that can feel, and that possesses that organisation that gives rise to memory, connects up the impressions it receives, forms through this connection a story which is that of its life, and so acquires consciousness of its identity, it can then deny, affirm, conclude and think.
		Diderot: Since an animal is a perceiving instrument, resembling any other in all respects, having the same structure, being strung with the same chords, stimulated in the same way by joy, pain, hunger, thirst, colic, wonder, terror, it is impossible that at the Pole and at the Equator it should utter different sounds.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/diderot.htm (3398 words)

	Denis Diderot and Jean Le Rond d'Alembert
		Diderot agreed to work as a co-editor on the project along with the mathematician, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, who was a member of the Academy of Sciences.
		Diderot soon changed the nature of the publication by broadening its scope.
		Diderot worked tirelessly on the hundreds of articles that explained how products were made in the trades and industries.
	www.visitvoltaire.com /v_diderot.htm (527 words)

	Diderot, Denis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Other highly distinctive works by Diderot include La Religieuse [the nun] (1796), a psychological novel; Jacques le fataliste (1796), a rambling novel in the manner of Sterne; and Le Neveu de Rameau [Rameau’s nephew], a brilliant satire in dialogue.
		Diderot’s vast correspondence forms a brilliant picture of the period.
		His later years, until he came to enjoy the patronage of Catherine II of Russia, were filled with financial difficulties.
	www.bartleby.com /65/di/Diderot.html (316 words)

	Positive Atheism's Big List of Denis Diderot Quotations
		One must be oneself very little of a philosopher not to feel that the finest privilege of our reason consists in not believing in anything by the impulsion of a blind and mechanical instinct, and that it is to dishonour reason to put it in bonds as the Chaldeans did.
		That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.
		The moment Diderot was dead, Catholic priests began painting and recounting the horrors of his expiring moments.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/diderot.htm (3150 words)

	Alibris: Denis Diderot
		Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders.
		Diderot's allegory, which features a king whose magic ring allows women to speak through their genitals, is a satire of Louis XV and the court of Versailles.
		Diderot has been admired as a novelist, philosopher, and encyclopedist, but he is less well known as a writer of short fiction.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Denis_Diderot (574 words)

	Diderot, Denis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denis Diderot was a French writer and philosopher.
		Diderot also wrote essays, which reveal his gradual transition to an atheistic materialistic philosophy.
		In addition to his encyclopedia, Diderot's best works are Jacques, the fatalist and his master and The dream of d'Alembert.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/D/Diderot/1.html (275 words)

	Amazon.ca: Penguin Classics Rameaus Nephew And Dalemberts Dream: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denis Diderot's groundbreaking philosophical text, Rameau's Nephew is a discourse between Rameau, a musician and jester for the rich, and a philosopher, possibly Diderot himself.
		Diderot never allowed Rameau's Nephew to be printed during his lifetime; it was only after his death that versions of the manuscript were printed.
		Diderot makes the philosopher's defense of genius based on amoral grounds and contradictory to his later arguments on virtue and morals because Diderot wants to show the inanity in conceptions commonly held by the general public.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0140441735 (1460 words)

	DENIS DIDEROT, April 28, 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was the brightest light of the French Enlightenment—a man of intelligence, passion and genius.
		Diderot went about his business of investigating what really went on in the monasteries and nunneries of France and made it public.
		Diderot was a freethinker who disregarded any dogma, tradition or authority, ecclesiastical or secular, over his mind—his right to think and express his thoughts.
	www.evolvefish.com /freewrite/diderot.html (539 words)

	Literary Encyclopedia: Denis Diderot (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denis Diderot was born, the son of a cutler, in Langres in Champagne on 5 October 1713, and died in Paris on 31 July 1784.
		Even now, he remains a complex and controversial figure, whose contribution to fields as diverse as epistemology, political theory, religious polemic, anti-colonialism, the theatre and the novel mark him out as one of the most distinctive French writers of the last three centuries.
		Although the book was immediately condemned by the authorities, it made Diderot’s reputation as a free-thinker and a formidable writer.
	www.literaryencyclopedia.com /php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=1261 (704 words)

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