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Revision as of 12:32, December 29, 2009
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French philosophe and leader of the Enlightenment. He contributed to literature, speculated on free will and attachment to material things.
he is best known for editing a great multivolume French language encyclopedia of scientific and social knowledge known as "Encyclopédie".
Further reading
- Wilson, Arthur McCandless. Diderot (1972), the standard biography
Primary sources
- Diderot, Denis, ed. A Diderot Pictorial Encyclopedia of Trades and Industry, Vol. 1 (1993 reprint) excerpt and text search
- Diderot, Denis. Diderot: Political Writings ed. by John Hope Mason and Robert Wokler (1992) excerpt and text search, with introduction
- main works of Diderot in English translation