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- Title
Diderot's Encyclopédie and the French Enlightenment: Summarizing Knowledge and Questioning Knowledge.
- Authors
Hobson, Marian
- Abstract
The article examines the tradition of the writing of Encyclopaedias and historical dictionaries in seventeenth and eighteenth century France. The main ones--by Bayle, Chambers, and by the group assembled by d'Alembert and Diderot--are all connected with unorthodoxy in religion. The massive collection of knowledge that all three dictionaries compiled sometimes seems to allow a juxtaposition of ideas which cannot be properly reconciled--a situation which leaves it to the reader to create a coherent whole. But Diderot goes the farthest in this direction, and causes even the possibility of such a whole to be questioned.
- Subjects
FRANCE; DIDEROT, Denis, 1713-1784; FRENCH encyclopedias &; dictionaries; ENCYCLOPEDIE; ENLIGHTENMENT; SKEPTICISM
- Publication
Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2013, Vol 8, Issue 2, p215
- ISSN
1673-3436
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3868/s030-002-013-0016-4