Atheist's Bible : : Diderot's Éléments de physiologie /

Atheist's Bible : : Diderot's Éléments de physiologie / / Caroline Warman.

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'Love is harder to explain than hunger, for a piece of fruit does not feel the desire to be eaten': Denis Diderot's Éléments de physiologie presents a world in flux, turning on the relationship between man, matter and mind. In this late work, Diderot delves playfully into the relati...

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Warman, Caroline,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge : : Open Book Publishers,, 2020.
©2020
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 428 pages) :; illustrations (some color)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • For Leo and Viola
  • Preface
  • 1. Introduction: The Curious Materialist
  • 2. 'Toutes les imperfections de l'inachèvement': The Mystification about the Manuscript Fragments
  • 3. Material World and Embodied Mind
  • 4. Diderot the Physiologist
  • 5. 1790: Naigeon and the Adresse à l'Assemblée nationale
  • 6. 1792: Naigeon's Article on 'Diderot' in the Encyclopédie méthodique: Philosophie ancienne et moderne
  • 7. 1794: 'Le citoyen Garron', the Comité d'instruction publique, and the Lost Manuscript of the Éléments de physiologie
  • 8. 1794-95: Garat and the École normale 9. 1796-97: Cabanis and Destutt de Tracy at the Institut national
  • 10. 1798, 1802: Naigeon, the Œuvres de Diderot, and the Censored Preface to Montaigne
  • 11. 1820: Garat's Mémoires historiques sur la vie de M. Suard, sur ses écrits, et sur le XVIIIe siècle
  • 12. 1823: Naigeon's Mémoires historiques et philosophiques sur la vie et les ouvrages de Denis Diderot
  • 13. Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Team.

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