Word: diderot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kinds of people who visit the Modern Language Center--the student who is interested in informal activities relating to the study and appreciation of a certain language and culture; and the scholar who comes to hear another scholar give a learned dissertation on, say, some lost Diderot manuscripts that he has recently recovered. The Center is ready to accommodate both types...
Consequently, his course in Russian Revolutionary Thought is given in the afternoon. He says the course has been handicapped by the absence of English translations of important writings by nineteenth century revolutionists. "It's as if you tried to understand French Revolution knowing Diderot was in favor of science, Rousseau rather enthusiastic, Voltaire disliked Church--but all in Chinese, so can't bother with them...
...article concerning the finding of manuscripts of Diderot's interested me very much. The accompanying picture by Meissonier . . . brought to mind a story...
...meeting of scholars in Manhattan, Dieckmann told what else he had found. He had not uncovered the original manuscript of the Dream, but there were plenty of other treasures. He had found letters, notebooks, 31 manuscripts, 19 works never published, an essay by the philosopher Helvetius with Diderot's furious comments in the margins...
...baron had lent them all to Dieckmann, and he had brought them home with him to St. Louis. All in all, to the tiny band of Diderot scholars it was the greatest discovery ever. It would mean a complete new look at the man Dieckmann holds was certainly "on a level with Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu." For students of the 18th Century, Dieckmann's find was beaten only by one other: the discovery of the Boswell Malahide papers (TIME, Nov. 29), which had also turned up forgotten in an ancient castle...