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Best Book of the Year - Kirkus Reviews

A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world.

Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopdie into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison for his atheism in 1749, Diderot decided to reserve his best books for posterity-for us, in fact. In the astonishing cache of unpublished writings left behind after his death, Diderot challenged virtually all of his century's accepted truths, from the sanctity of monarchy, to the racial justification of the slave trade, to the norms of human sexuality. One of Diderot's most attentive readers during his lifetime was Catherine the Great, who not only supported him financially, but invited him to St. Petersburg to talk about the possibility of democratizing the Russian empire.

In this thematically organized biography, Andrew S. Curran vividly describes Diderot's tormented relationship with Rousseau, his curious correspondence with Voltaire, his passionate affairs, and his often iconoclastic stands on art, theater, morality, politics, and religion. But what this book brings out most brilliantly is how the writer's personal turmoil was an essential part of his genius and his ability to flout taboos, dogma, and convention.

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  • Title Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
  • Author Andrew S. Curran
  • Binding Hardback
  • Pages 528
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Other Press (NY)
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9781590516706 / 1590516702
  • Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.5 in (23.11 x 15.75 x 3.81 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 18th Century
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophers - France, Diderot, Denis
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2018019273
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Choice, 07/01/2019, Page 0
  • Kirkus Reviews, 10/15/2018, Page 46
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/10/2018, Page 0

About the author

Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. The author of two previous books, Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe and The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, Curran is a Fellow in the history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acadmiques.
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