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Diderot And The Art Of Thinking Freely by Curran Andrew S.
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclop die into existence. But his most daring writing took place in the shado ...Show more
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
Category: Philosophy and Religion
Best Book of the Year - Kirkus Reviews A spirited biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who helped build the foundations of the modern world. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclop die into existence. But his most ...Show more
Who's Black and Why? - A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race by Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Editor); Andrew S. Curran (Editor)
Category: History
The first translation and publication of sixteen submissions to the notorious eighteenth-century Bordeaux essay contest on the cause of black skin--an indispensable chronicle of the rise of scientifically based, anti-Black racism.In 1739 Bordeaux's Royal Academy of Sciences announced a contest for the b ...Show more
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