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Andrew S. Curran

Auteur van Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely

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Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of the Humanities at Wesleyan University. The author of two previous books, Sublime Disorder: Physical Monstrosity in Diderot's Universe and The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment, Curran is a Fellow in the toon meer history of medicine at the New York Academy of Medicine and a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Acadmiques. toon minder

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My only complaint is the plethora of names....many I knew, many I did not. An all inclusive list of the characters ( more extensive than the abbreviated list provided) would have been welcome. I love the Enlightenment and works dealing with this timeframe I find exciting and wonderful. Diderot is a minor hero of mine so the book was a feeding frenzy on my part. Well-written although splitting the book into two sections, one mostly biographical and the second mostly thematic was maybe not the best. Still, an excellent read.… (meer)
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