Word: diderot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was plenty of reason for the King's ministers to speak ill of the book. It was edited by fiery Philosopher-Dramatist Denis Diderot, and he had made it a good deal more than a compilation of all the knowledge that was available at the middle of the 18th century. To many a Frenchman it became the voice of Reason itself-a major intellectual weapon of the Revolution, one of the brightest ornaments of the Enlightenment, the foundation stone of the new secularism. Though Frenchmen have long since ceased to read it, they have never ceased to revere...
...Turning Point." To honor the sooth anniversary of the publication of Volume I of Diderot's Encyclopedic, France has embarked on a year-long series of celebrations. The Archives Nationales de France have published an exact reproduction of Diderot's prospectus. The Bibliotheque Nationale has put on a massive exhibition of his original manuscripts and illustrations. Meanwhile,the Sorbonne has commissioned six monographs on various aspects of the work; and the Ministry...
Education is toying with the idea of backing a film based on Diderot's life. The ministry has also decreed that schools must place special emphasis on the encyclopedia in 1952. Cried Minister Andre Marie: "This work, by the spirit in which it was undertaken . . . marks the turning point in ideas which ushered in our modern times...
Intolerance & Anagrams. The ushering began in 1745, when a Paris printer named André François Le Breton hired the impecunious Diderot to work on a modest two-volume encyclopedia. Diderot soon expanded the project, decided to "assemble the knowledge scattered over the surface of the earth . . ." Before he was through, he had persuaded some of the best brains in Europe to help...
Also receiving awards were H. P. Hatch '93, professor emeritus, Episcopal Theological School, for work on New Testament manuscripts; Amado Alonso, professor of Romance Languages, for Spanish philological research; and Herbert Deickmann, associate, professor of Romance Languages, for studies on the development and structure of Diderot's thought...