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- Title
The Philosopher's Room: Diderot's Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown.
- Authors
Scott, Katie
- Abstract
Regrets on Parting with My Old Dressing Gown recounts the story of Diderot’s internal struggles with affluence and comfort and his attempt to reconcile luxury with the philosopher’s life. This article analyses some of the ways he sought to do this is by attending closely to Regrets’ spatial and material forms. Not things, but relations to things, the article argues, characterised Diderot’s ethics of consumption. It further suggests that the politics of luxury was for Diderot linked to questions not only of property but also of access and that the ancient virtue of hospitality was crucial to his defence of his new ‘revered’ dressing gown and all that it connoted.
- Subjects
DIDEROT, Denis, 1713-1784; FRENCH philosophers; LUXURIES; ECONOMIC consumption &; ethics; HEDONISTIC consumption; HISTORY; ETHICS
- Publication
Oxford Art Journal, 2016, Vol 39, Issue 2, p185
- ISSN
0142-6540
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxartj/kcw014