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A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon

Wednesday 2 October 2013 at 16:24

This October marks 300 years since the birth of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot. Although perhaps best known for co-founding the Encylopédie, Philipp Blom argues for the importance of Diderot's philosophical writings and how they offer a pertinent alternative to the Enlightenment cult of reason spearheaded by his better remembered contemporaries Voltaire and Rousseau.

Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2013/10/02/a-dangerous-man-in-the-pantheon/