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	Denis Diderot
		Diderot's letters to her belong to the important sources of his personal life and reveal ways of thinking in that era.
		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)

	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 (376 words)

	Diderot & Encyclopédie (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diderot’s philosophy, which is unjustly depreciated because of its non systematic character, can be expoounded in a coherent manner if the central categories of his thought are analysed.
		Diderot slides from the concept of nature to that of living animated matter in the context of a philosophy which refuses any recourse to finalism; thus is forced to equate natural law with possibility as it was discovered and invented by the ‘rational’ and ‘experimental’ philosophies of his time.
		Diderot was fascinated by physiognomy and the theories of P. Camper, inventor of the ‘facial line’, adopted by physical anthropologists, but he used it to emphasize the continuity between species.
	www.sigu7.jussieu.fr /diderot/societe/revue26.html (2477 words)

	The Infidels - Dennis Diderot
		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.
		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).
	www.theinfidels.org /zunb-diderot.htm (1949 words)

	DIDEROT, Denis (1713-84)
		The essayist and philosopher Denis Diderot was one of the originators and interpreters of the Age of Enlightenment.
		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).
		Diderot was undaunted by the government's censorship of the work and by the criticism of conservatives and reactionaries.
	history-world.org /diderot.htm (920 words)

	Illustrious People
		Diderot lavished care over her education, and she eventually wrote a short account of his life and classified his manuscripts.
		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).
		Diderot went to St. Petersburg in 1773 to thank her for her financial support and was received with great honour and warmth.
	gallery.euroweb.hu /database/glossary/illustr2/diderot.html (2071 words)

	Diderot, Denis. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Diderot was enormously influential in shaping the rationalistic spirit of the 18th cent.
		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.
	www.bartleby.com /65/di/Diderot.html (316 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)

	On Diderot
		Diderot took the ground that, if orthodox religion be true Christ was guilty of suicide.
		The moment Diderot was dead, Catholic priests began painting and recounting the horrors of his expiring moments.
		And yet the rabbis and the priests, the ignorant zealot and the cruel bigot, feeling that this quiet, thoughtful, modest man was in some way forging weapons to be used against the church, hated him with all their hearts.
	www.infidels.org /library/historical/robert_ingersoll/on_diderot.html (3455 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)

	Denis Diderot
		Diderot spent thirty years of his life compiling the Encyclopedie- an immense contribution to the Enlightenment of Europe- and dedicating his the rest of his life to helping others expand their realm of knowledge, thus adding Diderot to the list of prime initiators of the Enlightenment.
		Denis Diderot, born in 1713, was educated by the Jesuits from 1728-1732, and then received the master of arts degree from the University of Paris.
		Diderot anonymously wrote, in 1746, the “Pensees philosophiques,” a collection of aphorisms, which was burned by the Parliament of Paris for its anti-Christian ideas.
	www.geocities.com /stefanywertz1/DenisDiderot.html (1221 words)

	Diderot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diderot was born in Langres and educated by Jesuits.
		Diderot, collaborating with mathematician Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, converted the project into a vast, new, and controversial 35-volume work, usually known as the Encyclopédie.
		For a century and a half, scholars despaired of recovering Diderot's original text, for the manuscript had been destroyed as the matter was set in type, but about 200 years later a volume containing Le BretonÍs corrections of the proof turned up and was acquired by an American collector.
	idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /enlightenment/diderot.htm (784 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)

	Diderot, Denis - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diderot, Denis, 1713-84, French encyclopedist, philosopher of materialism, and critic of art and literature, b.
		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, Denis.(Roman de soi et histoire de soi.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-diderot.html (444 words)

	Denis Diderot
		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.infidels.org /library/modern/john_murphy/denisdiderot.html (594 words)

	Buy Essay on Diderot (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Diderot was a writer of encyclopedias in 18th century France, as well as a novelist in secret – writers could be publicly executed for what the works they had written during this era.
		Diderot uses stream of consciousness, disjointed subplots, lack of an overall plot, narrator interruptions and a lot of other abnormal tools to create a novel that questions its very form and despises traditional style pretty much wholesale.
		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 interesting experiment of identifying himself with the tormented existence of a woman's mind and body.
	www.millenniumessays.com /SampleEssay33.php (1034 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)

	CONVERSATION BETWEEN D'ALEMBERT AND DIDEROT
		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.
		Diderot: That is to say, you are dogmatic for in the morning and dogmatic against in the afternoon.
	www.marxists.org /reference/subject/philosophy/works/fr/diderot.htm (3398 words)

	Rocky Road: Diderot and d'Alembert
		What Diderot and d'Alembert did was work with an army of experts and writers to publish an irreverant set of encyclopedias about science, art and trades in pre-Revolutionary France.
		The stunning conversationalist Diderot was a bit of a bohemian, and the mathematician d'Alembert found some of his colleague's friends, such as Rousseau and Buffon, a little unpalatable.
		Diderot and d'Alembert lived and worked in a time when printed material was anything but fixed.
	www.strangescience.net /didalem.htm (636 words)

	Diderot, Denis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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)

	DIDEROT
		Diderot is a key French Enlightenment figure, famous as an important theatre critic, novelist and polymath thinker who used the Annual Painting Salons to construct his Philosophy on art and culture.
		Although Diderot influenced the visual arts of his day, the artists here intervene in the thinking of Diderot, in particular, his preoccupation with the sentimental genres that were so typical of the popular middlebrow dramas of his day.
		It is the story of a magic ring, given by a genie to his master a Sultan who, when the ring is turned towards a woman, hears a secret voice: her ‘jewel’ begins to speak from under her skirts.
	www.daniellearnaud.com /diderot.htm (609 words)

	DENIS DIDEROT, HIS CONTRIBUTION
		In his Paradoxe sur le comdien (written 1773, published 1830), Diderot argued that great actors must possess judgment and penetration without sensibilityi.e., without actually experiencing the emotions they are portraying as characters on the stage.
		Diderot, in a letter to David Hume, "I flatter myself in that I am like you a citizen of the world", meaning that he rose above the parochial fetters of nationalism and religion.
		Diderot through his translations of Shaftsbury and Bentham, and his work on the French Encyclopedia (by far the single most important printed work coming out of the Enlightenment) has earned a place beside Voltaire.
	skeptically.org /thinkersonreligion/id5.html (2365 words)

	Denis Diderot [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		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)

	Diderot philosophe
		En 1769, Diderot écrit trois dialogues connus sous le titre du Rêve de D'Alembert.
		Ils mettent en scène quatre personnes réelles : Diderot lui-même, un géomètre, son ami d'Alembert, un médecin, le Dr Bordeu et une jeune femme, Mlle de Lespinasse.
		Rêve de D'Alembert de Diderot, édition collective sous la direction de Sophie Audidière, Jean-Claude Bourdin, Colas Duflo, CNRS Editions, Paris, 2006, 423 p.
	www.denis-diderot.net (297 words)

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		Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer.
		One of the enlightenment philosophes, Denis Diderot, described Rousseau as a madman and a damned soul and "wrote that the poets had been right in placing an immense interval between heaven and hell, implying that Rousseau resided in hell.
		Ideas, wrote Diderot, were the highest form of property because they were so closely associated to the individual who created them.
	www.lycos.com /info/denis-diderot.html (509 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.
		It is raining bombs on the house of the Lord.
	www.positiveatheism.org /hist/quotes/diderot.htm (3151 words)

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