Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Summarized Edition)

In Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (1878), John Morley offers a lucid intellectual biography of Denis Diderot and a history of the Encyclopédie, the Enlightenment's boldest machine for organizing knowledge. He reads Rameau's Nephew, Le Rêve de d'Alembert, Jacques le fataliste, the Salons, and technical entries alongside episodes of censorship and salon sociability. The style is Victorian but braci...