Diderot, Denis 1713-1784
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| Works: | 12,098 works in 28,457 publications in 19 languages and 229,706 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Fiction Pictorial works Illustrated works Criticism, interpretation, etc Novels Religious fiction Encyclopedias Experimental fiction Satire Erotic fiction |
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| Roles: | Author, Editor, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Creator, Contributor, Translator, Honoree, Dedicatee, Arranger, Author of afterword, colophon, etc., Publishing director, Attributed name, Director, Annotator, Adapter, Author of introduction, Originator, Commentator, Collector, Artist, Compiler, Composer, Dubious author, Correspondent, Monitor, coo, 070, Recipient, Narrator, Dedicator |
| Classifications: | PQ1979, 843.5 |
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Most widely held works about
Denis Diderot
- Diderot by Arthur McCandless Wilson( Book )
- The culture of diagram by John B Bender( )
- Identity and ideology : Diderot, Sade, and the serious genre by Julie Candler Hayes( )
- Mass enlightenment : critical studies in Rousseau and Diderot by Julia Simon( )
- Diderot and Descartes : a study of scientific naturalism in the Enlightenment by Aram Vartanian( )
- Diderot's chaotic order; approach to synthesis by Lester G Crocker( )
- Diderot by Otis Fellows( Book )
- Diderot, Sénèque et Jean-Jacques : un dialogue à trois voix by Eric Gatefin( )
- Diderot and the encyclopædists by John Morley( Book )
- Dramatic experiments : life according to Diderot by Eyal Peretz( )
- Framed narratives : Diderot's genealogy of the beholder by Jay Caplan( )
- The new spirit by Havelock Ellis( Book )
- Absorption and theatricality : painting and beholder in the age of Diderot by Michael Fried( Book )
- Diderot studies( )
- Diderot : a critical biography by P. N Furbank( Book )
- To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury( Book )
- The genius of the future; studies in French art criticism: Diderot, Stendhal, Baudelaire, Zola, the brothers Goncourt, Huysmans by Anita Brookner( Book )
- New essays on Diderot( )
- Diderot by Peter France( Book )
- Diderot, the embattled philosopher by Lester G Crocker( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Denis Diderot
The nun by
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763 editions published between 1796 and 2019 in 15 languages and held by 4,721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Suzanne Simonin, an illegitimate teenage girl, suffers mental and physical abuse after being forced to become a nun in eighteenth-century France
763 editions published between 1796 and 2019 in 15 languages and held by 4,721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Suzanne Simonin, an illegitimate teenage girl, suffers mental and physical abuse after being forced to become a nun in eighteenth-century France
Rameau's nephew ; and, D'Alembert's dream by
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632 editions published between 1761 and 2019 in 15 languages and held by 4,671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The two works in dialogue form blending irony and humor challenge eighteenth-century morals and conventions
632 editions published between 1761 and 2019 in 15 languages and held by 4,671 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The two works in dialogue form blending irony and humor challenge eighteenth-century morals and conventions
Jacques the fatalist and his master by
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573 editions published between 1792 and 2019 in 9 languages and held by 3,946 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything? Where are Jacques and his Master going? Are they simply occupying space, living mechanically until they die, believing erroneously that they are in charge of their Destiny? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do, and behaves like a provocative, ironic, and unfailingly entertaining master of revels which finally show why Fate is not to be equated with doom." "In the introduction to this new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of action which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental."--Jacket
573 editions published between 1792 and 2019 in 9 languages and held by 3,946 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Jacques the Fatalist is Diderot's answer to the problem of existence. If human beings are determined by their genes and their environment, how can they claim to be free to want or do anything? Where are Jacques and his Master going? Are they simply occupying space, living mechanically until they die, believing erroneously that they are in charge of their Destiny? Diderot intervenes to cheat our expectations of what fiction should be and do, and behaves like a provocative, ironic, and unfailingly entertaining master of revels which finally show why Fate is not to be equated with doom." "In the introduction to this new translation, David Coward explains the philosophical basis of Diderot's fascination with Fate and shows why Jacques the Fatalist pioneers techniques of action which, two centuries on, novelists still regard as experimental."--Jacket
Paradoxe sur le comédien by
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168 editions published between 1864 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 1,457 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Le Paradoxe sur le comédien est un dialogue en prose imaginé par Denis Diderot (1713-1784). Il est publié pour la première fois en 1830, à Paris, sept ans après sa conception. Sous la forme d'un dialogue, dissymétrique, entre deux interlocuteurs censés défendre une thèse opposée, Diderot (1713-1784) développe une véritable réflexion sur l'art du comédien et, plus largement, sur la création artistique. Ainsi pose-t-il la supériorité de l'intelligence et du travail conscient sur la sensibilité, fût-elle porteuse d'une grande puissance pathétique
168 editions published between 1864 and 2015 in 4 languages and held by 1,457 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Le Paradoxe sur le comédien est un dialogue en prose imaginé par Denis Diderot (1713-1784). Il est publié pour la première fois en 1830, à Paris, sept ans après sa conception. Sous la forme d'un dialogue, dissymétrique, entre deux interlocuteurs censés défendre une thèse opposée, Diderot (1713-1784) développe une véritable réflexion sur l'art du comédien et, plus largement, sur la création artistique. Ainsi pose-t-il la supériorité de l'intelligence et du travail conscient sur la sensibilité, fût-elle porteuse d'une grande puissance pathétique
Lettre sur les aveugles by
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89 editions published between 1773 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 1,358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Au confluent de la philosophie, de la littérature et de la science, cette lettre occupe une place centrale dans l'oeuvre de l'auteur. Il s'affirme résolument matérialiste dans son analyse du comportement de deux aveugles-nés
89 editions published between 1773 and 2016 in 4 languages and held by 1,358 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Au confluent de la philosophie, de la littérature et de la science, cette lettre occupe une place centrale dans l'oeuvre de l'auteur. Il s'affirme résolument matérialiste dans son analyse du comportement de deux aveugles-nés
Oeuvres romanesques by
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109 editions published between 1951 and 1984 in 4 languages and held by 1,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman philosophique
109 editions published between 1951 and 1984 in 4 languages and held by 1,328 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Analyse : Roman philosophique
Œuvres by
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110 editions published between 1821 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Verzameld werk van de Franse auteur (1713-1784)
110 editions published between 1821 and 2001 in 3 languages and held by 1,256 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Verzameld werk van de Franse auteur (1713-1784)
The indiscreet jewels by
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262 editions published between 1748 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 1,220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Philosopher, critic, novelist, and editor of the monumental Encyclopedie, Denis Diderot was one of the eighteenth century's most influential and provocative figures. For the first time complete in English translation, The Indiscreet Jewels is the earliest and, perhaps, most daring of Diderot's "philosophical" novels - a fearessly libertine fable on the order of such ribald classics as Boccaccio and Rabelais."--BOOK JACKET. "Published in 1748, with three chapters added later in the author's career, this extraordinary fiction is a take-off on the erotic-oriental tales popular at the time. Set in a sultan's court in the Congo, the novel begins with Mangogul (the Sultan) suffering from acute boredom, only to be rescued by a genie offering the potentate a magic ring that, when pointed at women, causes their genitals, or "jewels," to speak. The resulting story, exuberant and delightful in its wit and satire, was so openly irreverent and critical of the French Court at Versailles - with the Sultan as Louis XV and his favorite as Mme de Pompadour - that it secured its author some egregious trouble with the Parisian authorities."--BOOK JACKET. "But The Indiscreet Jewels is far from being just a political roman a clef. The Sultan's "scientific method" reveals an allegory of the female body, perennially silent, at last recovering its voice and daring to speak. What the "jewels" say is at once a parody and supreme example of the French Enlightenment's urge to seek knowledge above and beyond the hypocrisies, inhibitions, and limitations of everyday life."--BOOK JACKET
262 editions published between 1748 and 2018 in 9 languages and held by 1,220 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Philosopher, critic, novelist, and editor of the monumental Encyclopedie, Denis Diderot was one of the eighteenth century's most influential and provocative figures. For the first time complete in English translation, The Indiscreet Jewels is the earliest and, perhaps, most daring of Diderot's "philosophical" novels - a fearessly libertine fable on the order of such ribald classics as Boccaccio and Rabelais."--BOOK JACKET. "Published in 1748, with three chapters added later in the author's career, this extraordinary fiction is a take-off on the erotic-oriental tales popular at the time. Set in a sultan's court in the Congo, the novel begins with Mangogul (the Sultan) suffering from acute boredom, only to be rescued by a genie offering the potentate a magic ring that, when pointed at women, causes their genitals, or "jewels," to speak. The resulting story, exuberant and delightful in its wit and satire, was so openly irreverent and critical of the French Court at Versailles - with the Sultan as Louis XV and his favorite as Mme de Pompadour - that it secured its author some egregious trouble with the Parisian authorities."--BOOK JACKET. "But The Indiscreet Jewels is far from being just a political roman a clef. The Sultan's "scientific method" reveals an allegory of the female body, perennially silent, at last recovering its voice and daring to speak. What the "jewels" say is at once a parody and supreme example of the French Enlightenment's urge to seek knowledge above and beyond the hypocrisies, inhibitions, and limitations of everyday life."--BOOK JACKET
Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers by
Denis Diderot(
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276 editions published between 1750 and 2007 in 6 languages and held by 1,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
276 editions published between 1750 and 2007 in 6 languages and held by 1,217 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A Diderot pictorial encyclopedia of trades and industry : manufacturing and the technical arts in plates, selected from L'Encyclopédie,
ou, Dictionnaire raisonne des sciences, des arts et des métiers, of Denis Diderot by
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13 editions published between 1959 and 1993 in English and held by 1,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Volume 2 of a two volume set of the first paperbound edition of 485 remarkable plates (over 2,000 illustrations) that accompanied landmark work of the Enlightenment. Sharply detailed copyright-free plates depict agriculture, military science, metalwork, mining, textile manufacture, masonry, carpentry, much more. Invaluable resource for art and craft use. Introduction and detailed captions by Charles C. Gillispie. Bibliography
13 editions published between 1959 and 1993 in English and held by 1,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Volume 2 of a two volume set of the first paperbound edition of 485 remarkable plates (over 2,000 illustrations) that accompanied landmark work of the Enlightenment. Sharply detailed copyright-free plates depict agriculture, military science, metalwork, mining, textile manufacture, masonry, carpentry, much more. Invaluable resource for art and craft use. Introduction and detailed captions by Charles C. Gillispie. Bibliography
Œuvres philosophiques by
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113 editions published between 1772 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 1,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pensées philosophiques. Diderot. Denis4070
113 editions published between 1772 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 1,170 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pensées philosophiques. Diderot. Denis4070
Denis Diderot, Rameau's Nephew = Le neveu de Rameau : a multi-media bilingual edition by
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8 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways. Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot's famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials, enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique."--Publisher's website
8 editions published in 2016 in English and held by 1,032 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In a famous Parisian chess café, a down-and-out, HIM, accosts a former acquaintance, ME, who has made good, more or less. They talk about chess, about genius, about good and evil, about music, they gossip about the society in which they move, one of extreme inequality, of corruption, of envy, and about the circle of hangers-on in which the down-and-out abides. The down-and-out from time to time is possessed with movements almost like spasms, in which he imitates, he gestures, he rants. And towards half past five, when the warning bell of the Opera sounds, they part, going their separate ways. Probably completed in 1772-73, Denis Diderot's Rameau's Nephew fascinated Goethe, Hegel, Engels and Freud in turn, achieving a literary-philosophical status that no other work by Diderot shares. This interactive, multi-media and bilingual edition offers a brand new translation of Diderot's famous dialogue, and it also gives the reader much more. Portraits and biographies of the numerous individuals mentioned in the text, from minor actresses to senior government officials, enable the reader to see the people Diderot describes, and provide a window onto the complex social and political context that forms the backdrop to the dialogue. Links to musical pieces specially selected by Pascal Duc and performed by students of the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, illuminate the wider musical context of the work, enlarging it far beyond its now widely understood relation to opéra comique."--Publisher's website
Œuvres esthétiques. [Textes établis, avec introductions, bibliographies, notes et relevés de variantes by
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104 editions published between 1959 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 940 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
104 editions published between 1959 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 940 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Rameau's nephew; and other works by
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18 editions published between 1926 and 2001 in English and French and held by 833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
18 editions published between 1926 and 2001 in English and French and held by 833 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Pensées philosophiques by
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90 editions published between 1708 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 800 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Rédigées en 1746, ces 62 pensées ont circulé clandestinement avant d'être condamnées. Elles sont l'oeuvre d'un libre penseur du siècle des Lumières qui voulait subvertir la pensée orthodoxe
90 editions published between 1708 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 800 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Rédigées en 1746, ces 62 pensées ont circulé clandestinement avant d'être condamnées. Elles sont l'oeuvre d'un libre penseur du siècle des Lumières qui voulait subvertir la pensée orthodoxe
Eléments de physiologie by
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29 editions published between 1964 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Diderot voulait mener à bien "une histoire naturelle et expérimentale de l'homme" dans laquelle la condition humaine, dans ses aspects physiques et moraux, était expliquée par la médecine plutôt que par la métaphysique. Son texte est une leçon de sagesse visant au bonheur de l'espèce humaine, et une somme de réflexion scientifique et philosophique dans la ligne des synthèses des Lumières
29 editions published between 1964 and 2019 in 3 languages and held by 721 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Diderot voulait mener à bien "une histoire naturelle et expérimentale de l'homme" dans laquelle la condition humaine, dans ses aspects physiques et moraux, était expliquée par la médecine plutôt que par la métaphysique. Son texte est une leçon de sagesse visant au bonheur de l'espèce humaine, et une somme de réflexion scientifique et philosophique dans la ligne des synthèses des Lumières
Diderot's selected writings by
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11 editions published between 1963 and 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twenty-six selections covering the whole range of human concern, from metaphysics to sex
11 editions published between 1963 and 1966 in English and Undetermined and held by 717 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Twenty-six selections covering the whole range of human concern, from metaphysics to sex
Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville by
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109 editions published between 1772 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Une oeuvre prescrite par le ministère de l'Education nationale pour le programme scolaire de terminale L couvrant ainsi le thème : L'homme, nature et société
109 editions published between 1772 and 2018 in 4 languages and held by 706 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Une oeuvre prescrite par le ministère de l'Education nationale pour le programme scolaire de terminale L couvrant ainsi le thème : L'homme, nature et société
French thought in the eighteenth century : Rousseau, Voltaire, Diderot by
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12 editions published between 1933 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published between 1933 and 1971 in English and Undetermined and held by 701 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The paradox of acting by
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33 editions published between 1883 and 2015 in English and held by 684 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
33 editions published between 1883 and 2015 in English and held by 684 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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- Ligaran, Author
- Alembert, Jean Le Rond d' 1717-1783 Other Editor Director Bibliographic antecedent Publishing director Author Contributor Creator Originator Collector
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 1712-1778 Other Collector Author
- Vernière, Paul Author of introduction Other Author Editor
- Crocker, Lester G. Author of introduction Author Editor
- Grimm, Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von 1723-1807 Other Editor Author of introduction Annotator Author Contributor Creator Librettist
- Fellows, Otis 1908-1993 Author Editor
- Varloot, Jean Other Author of introduction Publishing director Editor Author
- Proust, Jacques Other Author of introduction Annotator Author Editor Author of afterword, colophon, etc.
- Wilson, Arthur McCandless 1902-1979 Author Editor
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Denis Diderot écrivain, philosophe et encyclopédiste français
Denis Diderot escritor, filósofo e enciclopedista francês
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Denis Diderot escrivan, filosòf e enciclopedista francés
Denis Diderot filosofo, enciclopedista, scrittore e critico d'arte francese
Denis Diderot filosoof uit Koninkrijk Frankrijk (1713-1784)
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Denis Diderot französischer Schriftsteller und Philosoph des 18. Jahrhunderts
Denis Diderot French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
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Diderot, Dionisio
Diderot, Dionisio 1713-1784
Diderot, Dionysius
Diderot, Dionysius 1713-1784
Diderot M. 1713-1784
Diderot Monsier 1713-1784
Diderot, Pantophile 1713-1784
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Didro, Denī 1713-1784
Didro, Denis
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Dionysius Diderotus
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Ntintero, Nteni 1713-1784
Ντενί Ντιντερό Γάλλος φιλόσοφος και συγγραφέας
Дени Дидро
Дени Дидро французский писатель, философ-просветитель и драматург
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Дэні Дзідро
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דידרו, דני
דידרו, דני 1713-1784
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دنيس ديدرو
دنيس ديدرو، 1713-1784
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ਦੇਨੀ ਦਿਦਰੋ
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디드로, 데니 1713-1784
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ディドロ, ドニ
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