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Diderot's Chaotic Order: Approach to Synthesis
By (Author) Lester G. Crocker
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
194
Hardback
200
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
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