Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to Synthesis

by Lester G. Crocker

Book Overview

Because of its fragmentary, evolving, exploratory, and dialectical character, Diderot's thought has continuously resisted overall synthesis. In the ideas of "order" and "disorder," ideas important in all of eighteenth-century thought, Lester G. Crocker finds the key to an outline of a structure that leads to a genuine synthesis of Diderot's writings on philosophy, morality, politics, and aesthetics.

The tensions in Diderot's thought, Professor...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691618526
• ISBN13: 9780691618524
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"