The name Denis Diderot today rings no bells with the vast majority of the American public, yet the French regard him as one of the brightest luminaries of their civilization. They read him ...

Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written from 1751-1772. Humanities Professor Andrew ...

Three hundred years ago, the author and philosopher Denis Diderot predicted that, according to author Andrew Curran, "The real threat to American democracy would not come from foreign powers ...

Eighteenth-century French philosopher Denis Diderot was the driving force behind the Encyclopédie, one of the first compendiums of human knowledge of its time. The anniversary of his birth has ...

Today (October 5) is 300 years since the birth of Denis Diderot, a prominent Enlightenment philosopher, art critic, and writer, who died on July 31, 1784, aged 70. A key Enlightenment figure ...

The early months of 1743 brought Denis Diderot’s career as a con artist and freeloader to a shameful end. His own father committed him as a prisoner to the Carmelite monastery in his hometown of ...

This psychological and behavioural effect is known as the Diderot Effect. Coined after the 18th century French philosopher Denis Diderot, the Diderot Effect highlights how one new acquisition can ...

Naomi Alderman looks at the remarkable way Denis Diderot connected ideas and people. In 18th-century Paris, he edited an early and vast encyclopaedia, despite fierce opposition. Show more Naomi ...

If he meets a head that strikes him, he would willingly fall on his knees before the bearer of that head to attract him to the studio Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French ...