Catherine & Diderot : : The Empress, the Philosopher, and the Fate of the Enlightenment / / Robert Zaretsky.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Zaretsky, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue --; 1. The Sea at Scheveningen --; 2. Reading Voltaire in Saint Petersburg --; 3. R is for Riga --; 4. Glasnost --; 5. The Shadow Lands --; 6. The Hermitage --; 7. Extraordinary Men and Events --; 8. Colic and Constitutions --; 9. The Road Not Taken --; 10. Send for Seneca --; Epilogue --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674237353; 9783110652031
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674237353
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Zaretsky.

In a dual biography crafted around the famous encounter between the French philosopher who wrote about power and the Russian empress who wielded it with great aplomb, Robert Zaretsky invites us to reflect on the fraught relationship between politics and philosophy, and between a man of thought and a woman of action.