Voltaire wrote an enthusiastic letter to Diderot commending the Lettre and stating that he had held Diderot in high regard for a long time, to which Diderot sent a warm response.
Denis Diderot, French man of letters and philosopher who, from 1745 to 1772, served as chief editor of the Encyclopedie, one of the principal works of the Age of Enlightenment.
But that would ignore Diderot’s naturalistic commitments and the role the Encyclopédie played, e.g., in the self-image of philosophers of science in the Vienna Circle. Our entry seeks to go beyond such oppositions in dealing with Diderot as a philosopher.
DIDEROT, DENIS (1713–1784) Denis Diderot, the French encyclopedist, philosopher, satirist, dramatist, novelist, and literary and art critic, was the most versatile thinker of his times and a key figure in the advancement of Enlightenment philosophy.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a writer and philosopher closely associated with the European Enlightenment. Though he died several years before, Diderot’s corpus of work contributed to the ideas of the French Revolution.
DENIS DIDEROT Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French writer, philosopher and art critic, who with Voltaire to a great extent shaped the French Enlightenment during the greater part of the 18th century. Diderot was born in Langres, Champagne, where he was educated at the Jesuit College.
Denis Diderot (1713-1784) was a French author and philosopher known for his views which influenced the Enlightenment and his general editorship of the multi-volume...
La réception de l’œuvre Diderot a une histoire particulière car l’image du philosophe a évolué avec le temps, au gré de la révélation progressive de son œuvre, comme il apparait clairement dans le tableau de synthèse de l’article Œuvres de Denis Diderot.