243 Pages
by
Routledge
243 Pages
by
Routledge
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Drawing upon the rich heterogeneity of Denis Diderot's texts-whether scientific, aesthetic, philosophic or literary-Andrew Clark locates and examines an important epistemological shift both in Diderot's oeuvre and in the eighteenth century more generally. In Western Europe during the 1750s, the human body was reconceptualized as physiologists began to emphasize the connections, communication,... Read more
Contents: Introduction: repetition and difference in Le Fils Naturel; Autonomous fibers and secreting organs; The poetics of order; The figure of dissonance; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Andrew H. Clark is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Fordham University
Andrew Clark evinces a profound understanding of Diderot's thought in its intellectual context, and his scholarship is impeccable.
H-France Review '...comporte une bibliographie etoffee, d'environ trois cents titres, qui propose un panorama stimulant d'etudes et d'ouvrages recents ou marquants sur Diderot....un ouvrage riche d'analyses, stimulant a tous egards, qui marque d'ores et deja une etape dans les etudes sur Diderot.' Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopedie '[This book] provides both a synthesis of the best of recent Diderot scholarship and a direction for its future.'
