The Dark Side of Diderot / Le Diderot des ombres (kartoniertes Buch)
French Studies of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 34
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ISBN/EAN: 9783034318488
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: kartoniertes Buch
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14.12.2015
This volume investigates the darker aspects of the work of Diderot, writer, art critic, philosopher and
, by focusing on the uneasy schism that emerges in his work between positive images of the Enlightenment and a residual, shadowy undercurrent of disorder, transgression and clandestine intellectual and social practices.
James Hanrahan is Ussher Lecturer in eighteenth-century French studies at Trinity College Dublin.
Síofra Pierse is Senior Lecturer in French and Francophone studies at University College Dublin.
Contents/Contenu: Marie-Anne Bohn : Travailler les ombres, travailler le négatif : l’exemple du
– Hélène David : Le
: les lumières de d’Alembert à l’ombre du songe, ou comment d’Alembert perdit la raison et conquit le
– Síofra Pierse: Subversive Scepticism: Diderot and Narrative Doubt – Ann Lewis: Venality, Theatricality and Sociability:
as a Prostitution Narrative – Marc Hersant : Vertiges de
– Ioana Galleron : La Mélancolie de Dorval – James Hanrahan: Diderot on Origins, a
of Enlightenment Thought – Edward O’Sullivan: The Shadows Around the Light: Diderot’s Play on Obscurity for the Purposes of Subversion in the
– Russell Goulbourne: Diderot’s Ghosts – Catriona Seth : Le Goût des ruines.
