Denis Diderot and the Encyclopédie
Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written from 1751-1772.
Description
Humanities Professor Andrew Curran discussed the life of French enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and the writing of the the Encyclopédie, written from 1751-1772.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Describe what Diderot’s Encyclopédie was and what it included.
- How did Diderot’s Encyclopédie reflect the enlightenment ideas about knowledge and religion developing at the time?
- Why was Diderot’s Encyclopédie controversial at the time?
- Describe the process in which Diderot created the Encyclopédie.
Additional Resource
Participants
Vocabulary
- Atheist
- Cudgel
- Denis Diderot
- Encyclopédie
- Enlightenment
- Jesuit
- Polemical
- Polymath
- Rousseau