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Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to Synthesis
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Full Title:
Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to Synthesis
Contributors:
By (Author) Lester G. Crocker
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
19th May 2015
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Dewey:
194
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
200
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
Weight:
28g
Description
Because of its fragmentary, evolving, exploratory, and dialectical character, Diderot's thought has continuously resisted overall synthesis. In the ideas of "order" and "disorder," ideas important in all of eighteenth-century thought, Lester G. Crocker finds the key to an outline of a structure that leads to a genuine synthesis of Diderot's writing
