Volume 20, Number 4 · March 22, 1973
The Man Who Told Secrets
By Jean Starobinski
Diderot
by Arthur M. Wilson
Oxford University Press, 917 pp., $25.00
Oeuvres Complètes
by D. Diderot, edited by Roger Lewinter
Paris: Le club français du livre, 14 vols. pp.
Diderot's Letters to Sophie Volland: A Selection
translated by Peter France
Oxford University Press, 218 pp., $11.75
The eighteenth century is remote enough to be another world, yet near enough for us to recognize here in their infancy our modern values, our political doctrines, and our intellectual disciplines. Exploring the eighteenth century is an indirect but useful way of examining ourselves.
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