Research Catalog

Title

Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot / Jean le Rond d'Alembert ; translated by Richard N. Schwab with the collaboration of Walter E. Rex ; with an introduction and notes by Richard N. Schwab.

Publication

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Alembert, Jean Le Rond d', 1717-1783.
• Schwab, Richard N.
• Rex, Walter E.

Description

liv, 170 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot expresses the hopes, dogmas, assumptions, and prejudices that have come to characterize the French Enlightenment. In this preface to the Encyclopedia, d'Alembert traces the history of intellectual progress from the Renaissance to 1751. Including a revision of Diderot's Prospectus and a list of contributors to the Encyclopedia, this edition, elegantly translated and introduced by Professor Richard Schwab, is one of the great works of the Enlightenment and an outstanding introduction to the philosophes.

Uniform Title

Encyclopédie Discours préliminaire. English.

Subjects

• Methods
• Methodology

Note

• Originally published: Indianopolis : Bobbs-Merrill, c1963

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Frontispiece and caption -- Translator's Introduction -- Note on the Translation -- Preliminary Discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot -- Part I -- Part II -- Part III -- Detailed Explanation of the System of Human Knowledge -- Observations on Bacon's Division of the Sciences -- Index .

ISBN

0226134768 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^95011562^

OCLC

• 32202771
• SCSB-10881266

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library