Prose of the world : Denis Diderot and the periphery of Enlightenment / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.

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Gumbrecht, Hans Ulrich [author.]

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TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publisher: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Edition: English editionDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 265 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781503627864
1503627861

Other title:

Denis Diderot and the periphery of Enlightenment

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Prosa der Welt. English

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Prose of the worldDDC classification:

848/.509 23

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PQ1979 .G86 2021

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Contents:

"On fait de moi ce qu'on veut" : a happy day in Diderot's life -- "Prose of the world" : is there a place for Diderot in Hegel's system? -- "Je suis dans ce monde et j'y reste" : ontology of existence in "Le neveu de Rameau" -- "Choses bizarres écrites sur le grand rouleau" : powers of contingency in "Jacques le fataliste et son maître" -- "Le prodige, c'est la vie" : metabolizing materialism in "Le rêve de d'Alembert" -- "Quels tableaux!" : acts of judgment and the singularity of phenomena in "Les salons" -- "Prose of the world" : who is Denis Diderot (and what is the "Encyclopédie")? -- "Je ne fais rien" : the last three years in Diderot's life.

Summary: "Philosopher and translator, critic and writer, art agent and encyclopedist: Denis Diderot was one of the defining figures of the movement that has gone down in history as the European Enlightenment. But what is the vanishing point of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries Voltaire and Rousseau, Schiller, Kant and Hume, is characterized by an almost centrifugal dynamic? Alongside scenes from Diderot's turbulent and moving life and close readings of his key works, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores this question, developing a new approach to this extraordinary intellectual"-- Provided by publisher.

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"Originally published in German in 2020 under the title "Prosa der Welt" : Denis Diderot und die Peripherie der Aufklärung" -- Copyright page.

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"Philosopher and translator, critic and writer, art agent and encyclopedist: Denis Diderot was one of the defining figures of the movement that has gone down in history as the European Enlightenment. But what is the vanishing point of his diverse oeuvre, which, unlike the works of his contemporaries Voltaire and Rousseau, Schiller, Kant and Hume, is characterized by an almost centrifugal dynamic? Alongside scenes from Diderot's turbulent and moving life and close readings of his key works, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht explores this question, developing a new approach to this extraordinary intellectual"-- Provided by publisher.

Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht is the Albert Guérard Professor in Literature Emeritus at Stanford University. His books written in English include In 1926 (1998), Production of Presence (Stanford, 2004), In Praise of Athletic Beauty (2006), Atmosphere, Mood, Stimmung (Stanford, 2012), After 1945 (Stanford, 2013), and Our Broad Present (2014).

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