Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Annotated)

John Morley's Diderot and the Encyclopaedists is a searching study of Denis Diderot and the intellectual circle that shaped the French Encyclopédie, one of the decisive monuments of Enlightenment thought. Combining biography, intellectual history, and moral criticism, Morley examines Diderot's restless genius, his philosophical materialism, dramatic experiments, criticism of art, and editorial lab...